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Re:There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz ... by rdtsc on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @01:24AM (#3669897)
It looks like you are jumping in without actually having read the article in question. That's ok, but you are wasting space building a straw man proceeding to vigorously demolish him.

The original article explicitly mentions how 24bit is useful for recording.

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Re:There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz ... by davesims on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @01:50AM (#3669965)
Speaking of jumping in without reading...I wasn't responding to the article. I was responding to the commenter that said you couldn't tell the difference between 16 and 24 bit.
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Re:There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz ... by rdtsc on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @09:28AM (#3671104)
And you cannot tell the difference. The reason to record using 24 bits is so you don't have to be as precise centering the recording level. If that level is centered then you can capture fine with 16 bits (by the way that is also explained in the article).
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