Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Mr.T
MrT@home wrote:


16 bits was an obvious choice because it's two bytes and provides a
sufficient degree of overkill. What you could also say is that not
for nothing was the early use and acceptance of 14 bit CD players,
when 16 bit converters were more difficult/expensive to make.

In fairness, I should point out, though, that the first generation
Philips '14 bit' chipsets for CD players actually used x4
oversampling. Thus - in principle at least - returned 16-bit
resolution.


Pray tell how oversampling increases resolution ? The reason for
oversampling was/is to make reconstruction filters easier to implemnt
without artifiacts of a steep slope. It's been a whil, have I forgotten ?

geoff