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RE: With 24-bits, no way any current technology can reach this

"There is noise from the device at 22.5 bits. There is additional noise from 24 bit dither noise if 24 bits are used. So you don't get the 22.5 bits the hardware is capable of if you work with 24 bit data. There was no extra cost to add the extra 8 bits, other than a few transistors out of millions since the internal data paths in the chip were already at 32 bits or more, as needed for the DSP. Whether it makes much of a difference is irrelevant, since it certainly doesn't make anything worse and costs next to nothing."

Interesting... I guess the only time this could even be relevant is from electronic synthesized tones! Hard to imagine anything of value down to the 22nd bit in the real world!
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