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Re:24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) by yzhou on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @07:08PM (#15128369)
the devil is in the DAC and ADC. You just can't turn 16bit/24bit data directly to/from analog without much loss. The 1/65536 accuracy voltage divider simply don't exist.

So, you have to up-sample the songs to high rates with less bits, like 1bit to 6bits, then do the conversion, and get the best SNR you can.

In this sense, there's simply a lot of advantage of using 24/196 since the above conversion can result in less loss and higher SNR

Re:24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) by arrrvalue on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @02:19AM (#15130050)
why was this down-voted too? it's the truth!