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Is bit perfect reading necessary? It’s so many samples per second, 44100 to be precise, than one bit error once in a while cannot be noticed. And it’s not like
by speedgoose 4y ago
Is bit perfect reading necessary? It’s so many samples per second, 44100 to be precise, than one bit error once in a while cannot be noticed.
And it’s not like audio is actually high fidelity. Any DAC will introduce a lot of errors. And the original recordings are not perfect either. Microphones, loud speakers, amplifiers, that’s a lot more errors than one wrong bit too.
- MaPi_ 4y agoI imagine that a bit flip in the most significant bit could cause an unpleasant pop.
- speedgoose 4y agoI'm not sure a loud speaker can produce a pop so quickly.
- martyvis 4y agoA bit flip at the most significant bit is a one cycle 22.05kHz pulse - so yes you almost certainly wouldn't hear it even if the speaker could reproduce it.
- jefftk 4y agoYou would totally hear it, as a small click. I had a bug in some audio software I was working with that did almost exactly this, and it sounded terrible.
- danadam 4y agoHere are some examples to listen to: https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/61633-intel-cpus-don%E2%80%99t-support-ecc-memory-how-bad-for-av-quality/#comment-1102705 https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/61633-intel-cpus-do...
- speedgoose 4y agoSo I was wrong, it’s very loud.