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- From: jpb@calmasd.Prime.COM (Jan Bielawski)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: CD SOund QUality
- Message-ID: <5402@calmasd.Prime.COM>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 23:11:08 GMT
- References: <1h17e4INNrkv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <539@bit.UUCP>
- Organization: Computervision, San Diego, CA
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- In article <539@bit.UUCP> grego@bit.UUCP (Grego Sanguinetti) writes:
- <In article <1h17e4INNrkv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> co940@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Nicholas E. Damato) writes:
- <>
- <>>people can't hear the difference between 15 and 16 bit.
- <>
- <>But they CAN hear the difference between 14 and 16 bits...
- <>and I'll bet they can hear the difference between 16 and 18 or 20
- <>bits.
- <>
- <Not scientific but interesting annectdote:
- <
- <When I auditioned CD players for my system I (single) blind AB tested two
- <Sony ES systems. One was a 16 bit 4x system and the other was a dual 18 bit
- <8x system. Two copies of same CD switched into same amp/speakers. Independent
- <person working switch.
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- I belive this is not what is being discussed here. CD is a 16 bit
- system, period. The various "18-bit" etc. in the players only refers to
- a particular D/A conversion strategy. The source is always 16 bit. All you
- were comparing was different D/A converters acting on the same 16 bit signal.
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- Jan Bielawski
- Computervision, San Diego
- jpb@calmasd.prime.com
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