======= On Friday 23 February 2007, Hartmut Noack wrote: ======= > > > The thing is, real resolution of almost all > > DACs is not better rather 14-15 bits. Very rare and very expensive DACs > > have real resolution about 20-21 bits. > > > > May it be :-) the switch from 16/44.1 to 24/96 is very well audible > anyway :-). I guess, for the realworld-usage of this card signal/noise > ratio is of greater importance then the question, if the DAC could > compute even greater resolution then the one I hear. > Well, I didn't say about 96KHz at all :-) What about difference between 16/44 and 24/44? As for me, I'm not sure, I'll detect difference at blind testing. Probably, my ears aren't golden ;-) At any case, IMHO the main problem is DACs realization rather format limitation. Andrew