On Thu, 15.11.07 20:58, Tanu Kaskinen (tanuk at iki.fi) wrote: > > Uh. That way you practically decrease the bit depth of your audio > > output to 15 bit. (Unless you happen to have a 24 bit soundcard) Not > > a very good idea for most people. > > I haven't compared 15 bit signal to 16 bit. I have a > 24-bit-only sound card and don't feel like setting up any > elaborate listening tests, so I'll take your word that > there's a perceivable difference. Hehe. I didn't say that it is perceivable. But it certainly a good thing to use the full 16bit range for recordings that are not normalized or for recordings with a large dynamic range, like Barber's adagio for strings. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
