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Originally Posted by mohthom  Maybe I should just put white noise generators in all of my listening rooms rather than record in 24bit then . . . |
Actually, there have been a few audiophiles doing exactly that quite recently (deliberately involving an acoustic noise-floor), though the purpose seemed vague to me. They claimed it 'improved' their perception of dynamics (if I recall correctly).
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I don't record for people to listen with high acoustic noisefloors - I record with the assumption that people are going to listen in a well sounding room on fair equipment. Obviously it would be negligent to assume that my recordings were only going to be listened to this way, but if you prepare for the playback that shows every flaw. Or maybe I should be getting people to drive past my listening room window to mask the poor fidelity . . .
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I'm not saying that there is no point in recording at 24bit, only that the improvements are to an extent predictable and 'maskable'.
This is interesting in light of the various tests that have 'shown no perceptible difference between 16bit & 24bit'.
In these tests I would expect that the distortion/noise products of 16bit were either acoustically masked or below the threshold of hearing for the test.
Andy