Raimund,
Thank you for all your work on noise measurements! I have a followup
question for you and entire wider brain trust here...
On your page
http://www.avisoft.com/recordertests.htm
You state: " Note that a bit-depth of 24 bit would not improve the
noise level figures at these high gain settings."
And on your page
http://www.avisoft.com/tutorial_mic_recorder.htm
You similarly state: "Besides the fact that there is no reason to worry
about the Marantz PMD671 preamplifier noise, it turns out that the
optionally available 24 bit recording format cannot provide any
significant improvement of the noise performance."
If, as you seem to indicate, there isn't much to loose with 16 bit, and
definitely something to gain (less consumption of blank media and
battery power, plus faster transfer times afterward), what compelling
reasons do we have to prefer 24 bit for capturing our original field
recordings?
Still conflicted after all these years,
Curt Olson
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