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I'm afraid I'll not be buying a subscription to that brand of Audiophile Weekly. I'm afraid I can't believe that an Audiophile (trans: lover of sound) would knowingly introduce noise not present on the playback medium to improve appreciation. If it were required it would be burned into the disc. I don't burn this data into the discs I produce because every bit (to the sixteenth and beyond) is important.
Again, maybe it's because I've met with rather favourable acoustics (£2m purpose built recording/concert hall, £2.5m purpose built audio research lab) but the consensus among those using these facilities is that depths above 16bit CAN be heard.
You say that the improvements between 16 and 24 bit are 'predictable.' What else would they be? An unpredictable result would be any piece of music played back at 24bit turned into Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie. A predictable result is that there is an increased level of dynamic resolution. Of course these improvements can be masked also - with earplugs, by playing too loud, by playing other music at the same time, by piercing the eardrum with a sharp object . . .
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