On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 20:17 +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote: > Oh so the bit depth has more influence on dynamic range while the > sampling frequency has more influence on... errr, resolution? What would > that be, psychoacoustically... 'Finesse'? Reduce the bit depth and the sound becomes more brittle, jagged, while at the same time losing fine details. I did some fascinating experiments with A/D - D/A convertor pairs (hardware) that I designed and built in college. Digitizing sound on 2...4...6 bits can produce some funny sound effects. I wonder if there's an easy way in software to shave off the lesser bits while preserving the amplitude (I can think of a hard way, but I'm lazy). The sampling frequency has influence mostly over the high frequencies. What's gained at higher sampling frequencies is something I would call "transparency". But everyone's different and can perceive these things differently. I guess you could do some experiments yourself. If you have a pair of good phones, it's time to use them. ;-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
