Dusty Chalk

Well, at least I know what Apple will cook up next -- aromatherapy apps! In Smell-O-Vision!

I suspect it's because they already spent the money, and weren't willing to spend it again.

32- or even 64-bit internal is not at all hypothetical.

You mean if the bits slip while entering the DAC? I guess that could happen. Do you really think they worry about that? Because there's no excuse for alignment errors during the downsampling process. And shouldn't that functionality be built into the DAC? (Arguably.) And yeah, there are other reasons which wouldn't directly effect the listening experience also, like DC offset (again, arguably -- not necessarily the responsibility of the author of the bitstream to alot for that, if the DAC was bullet proof [could handle any legal inputs]), but since it's so easy to accomodate for in the dithering process, why not? I would suggest that the headroom argument could be rendered moot by putting criteria on the input -- assume all the headroom had already been taken up (with some entirely unrealistic hypothetical inaudible soft limiter, or by the mastering digitizer knowing his gear well enough to know exactly where to put levels). But both of those are relatively minor arguments. So by the same token, you'd have to retract your stance on that would apply to 24-bits as well, neh? (In the downsampling from 32-bit example.)

Indeed. 8.3" x 13.4" x 7.9"

Garbage, "Only Happy When It Rains" Lush, "Ladykillers" Breeders, "Cannonball" The The, "Infected" Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Relax" M+M (Martha and the Muffins), "Black Stations/White Stations" Yello, "Rhythm Divine" and "Domingo" and "Angel No" Eurythmics, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Rammstein, "Angel"

You can call it sound space, I'm not sure there's a word for it. And congratulations, good sound is fun.

Blur, "Song #2" and "Boys & Girls" Stranglers, "Golden Brown" A-Ha, "Take On Me" Jon Astley, "Jane's Gettin' Serious" Edwyn Collins, "A Girl Like You" Tears for Fears, "Shout" Catherine Wheel, "Black Metallic" Kraftwerk, "The Model" Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Haze" Moody Blues, "Nights in White Satin"/"Late Lament" Depeche Mode, "World In My Eyes" Curve, "Coast Is Clear" (did I do this one already?) Barkmarket, "Dumbjaw" Gary Numan, "Cars" New Order, "True Faith", "Shell Shock", "Blue Monday" The Cars, "Moving In Stereo", "Dangerous Type" Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight" Air, "Playground Love" Stabbing Westward, "Waking Up Beside You"

No, I meant if you were, say, starting from a 32-bit master or something. So theoretically, if one was starting from a 24-bit master and listening in 20-bit, one wouldn't need dithering either? You could just truncate?

So you shouldn't need to dither 24-bit audio, then, right?

Mine don't. Don't know if they've added it since then, but not that I know of.

So why do you need dither if you can't hear the bottom-most bit?

(a) But that's a dynamic range thing. ( And in the real world, they'd be different. If they were both based on the same 24-bit master, the 16-bit redbook recording would have been dithered down to obscure the quantization error, whereas the 16-bit DAC with 24-bit input would probably just truncate it. You know, I have a 16-bit DAC, that's something I can try on my own.

I think he means he loves when that happens...to other people, and he can watch either from a safe distance or behind some sort of safety barrier.

Okay, that was great, you definitely have a gift for putting things in a way that I can understand. (I'm still not sure I understand Dan's compatability comment, but I'm not going to ask him now, since he's probably drunk off his rocker. And I haven't gone off and tried to figure it out on my own yet.) Now do me...er...you know what I mean, translate what I was trying to say for Dan & co.. But...although I agree that when the "top" 16 bits are 0x0000 or 0x0001 (sticking with positive values), that the lower 8 bits would make no difference, it's when the values are 0x7FFF and so on that they would have a cumulative effect on the sound.

Babelfish say, "Flippig". Any real Germans want to confirm/deny?

Congratulations!

Please let us know how it changes your listening experience once you've settled in to the new sound.

I love when that happens.

Newcleus! :thumbsup:

Wow. I wonder if the Minipods are significantly bigger than the Micropods. I had gotten the impression that they were full-size speakers, now I'm not so sure.

Well, I just medicated Bobby for the first time yesterday, and it was as easy as getting the pill past his tongue, getting bitten in the process (but not enough to break skin), and then watching him struggle with swallowing it (!).

No. Headphone fest.