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I think there is another point to be made about 24 bit. Its not that you can 
hear such a huge difference - its that when you record 16 bit, you have to 
get the levels just right, and compress a lot - to avoid overages but keep 
the signal as hot as possible. However, with 24 bit, you have a lot more 
freedom in recording - more headroom if you like - and then you dither to 16 
bit using a limiter so that you have the "best 16 bits" of the 24.



>So, in regards to "dithering down," unless
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>you're doing work for video or some other format where you can actually
>USE
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>a higher bitrate for enduser reproduction, I can't see starting and working
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>in anything more than 16 bit, IF that's where you're going to end up. 
>At
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>least that way, you know where you're at from the git-go and when something
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>disappears, you don't need to guess at what happened and guess at how to
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>"fix it in the mix."