Raimund wrote----
Interestingly, even the 32 bit floating point format can potentially cause
trouble in algorithms that require accumulating many small numbers into a much
larger sum.
Regards,
Raimund
A paper about 1 bit processing read recently had some points that dovetail
quite nicely with that thought Raimund.
http://www.sonicstudio.com/pdf/papers/1bitOverview.pdf
It seems to me that the whole digital degradation that we see is due to major
corps trying to complicate their coding so their exclusivity on product and
universality and standards can be manipulated to suit their marketing
strategies. If one bit digital had become the norm, then it would be quite
simple to trace the inadequacy by pointing to sampling rates alone. Our ears
don't fail us, i think that what fails us in all this is a slow progressive war
with digital manipulation. Might be an over-simplification and maybe these
corps had sound reasoning, but I cannot tell you the amount of wasted money
from gear that I gave bought from FireWire to so called High MiniDisc
technology and all are muddled by not being universally compatible. It is a
real downer for me to record something only to find it such a huge pain the ass
to contain and convert all these large files. Maybe at some point in the
future, there become a saturation point, where some universality starts
happening purely by the nature of digits and demand, but at present I feel like
a caveman at my laptop starting a audio fire by rubbing two sticks.
Regards,
Mark
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