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Garth Hemphill wrote:

>on 5/8/02 2:36 AM, Joeri wrote:
>
>>Note the fact that most A/D convertors' noise level cancels out this
>>advantage of 24bit anyway.
>>    
>>
>Well, that's a rather large generalization.  All the converters I own, in
>cards, mixers, and stand-alone have good enough noise floor specs for that
>not to be the case.  In fact, as far as I can tell, only the cheaper audio
>cards have that trouble.
>
??
I have yet to see the first A/D convertor with a noise floor of 144dB 
(full 24bit).

>Now, that said, it's easy for your system to introduce noise in other ways,
>and that is more of a common problem, and that just means you really have to
>choose each component in the chain more carefully, as well as using a room
>with some acoustical treatment.
>
That's very true indeed.

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>Garth Hemphill wrote:
>I have yet to see the first A/D convertor with a noise floor of 144dB
>(full 24bit).

I beleive that I have yet to see a human being who would be able to 
hear the difference between a say... 130db noise floor and a 144db 
noise floor.