All you really need to know is Nyquist's thereom "A bandlimited continuous-time signal can be sampled and perfectly reconstructed from its samples if the wavefo

All you really need to know is Nyquist's thereom "A bandlimited continuous-time signal can be sampled and perfectly reconstructed from its samples if the waveform is sampled over twice as fast as it's highest frequency component." This is where the magic 44.1 Khz sampling rate comes from. It is twice the limit of human hearing at 22 Khz. Now I don't really understand why 16-bit or 1-bit makes a difference. Maybe someone can explain that to me.