1. Re: 24 bit vs 16 bit recordings

["stoatwizard" stoatwizard]

> So.. there was a possible sense in what those guys did, back
> then,  when they copied their digital tracks to their Ampex and back?
> Covered some digital noise with tape hiss and modulation noise? Is
> that possible?
> I mean, they were terribly ridiculed, still perhaps right, but in a
> way that we didn't understand at the time?

shouldn't they have done that the other way round - get the tape hiss
onto the analogue signal before the A/D conversion which then acts to
dither the signal? Quantisation distortion once added can never be
removed...