XPost: rec.music.gdead, sci.electronics.design   
   From: lcargill99@comcast.net   
      
   dizzy wrote:   
   > Dave Platt wrote:   
   >   
   >> To my mind, this "24-bit" effort on Apple's part is missing the point.   
   >> 24-bit isn't really the issue.  A well-mastered 16-bit PCM recording   
   >> can sound truly wonderful... as a delivery mechanism, 16-bit linear   
   >> PCM seems entirely adequate to me.   
   >   
   > You're right, of course.  24 bits in the "deliver mechanism" is   
   > fucking stupid.  Period.   
   >   
   > Are people stupid enough to fall for it as "better"?   
   >   
      
      
   They haven't been so far.   
      
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