Hi Fons, On 24.04.2012, at 22:09, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > More than 96 dB dynamic range ? I've done some 20th and 21st > century music recordings that had 60 dB or so of dynamic range, > but that's about the widest I've ever seen. For any practical > use you have to reduce that anyway. > > For properly dithered 16-bit the A-weighted noise floor is well > below -96 dBFS as well. And then you have to consider the ambient > noise level of the reproduction location. Considering all this, > 16 bit as a final delivery format seems to be perfectly OK.
I can definitely second that. I'm never unhappy when switching between the 24 bit original and the 16 bit dithered file--although I do spend some time selecting which of the available dithers to use, and I'm paranoid about the introduction of another level of dithering when creating the premaster. Cheers, Andrew _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
