"Steven Sullivan" wrote in message

In rec.audio.tech David Looser
wrote:
"geoff" wrote in message
around 15kHz, the click spectrum would go much higher
than that so preserving the fast risetime of the clicks
would be of value to automatic click detection software.
On the other hand the S/N ratio of no better than 70dB
requires only a 13-bit ADC, leaving a margin of 3 bits
(18dB) for click headroom/ post digitising amplification
even when using a 16-bit converter. And it doesn't
matter if high-amplitude clicks are clipped, as long as
the rise-time is preserved.

I would be astonished if anyone could tell the
difference between an original 24-bit digitisation and a
16-bit one when digitising vinyl.

Agreed.

You must not visit 'audiophile' forums much. Such claims
are routine -- as is the claim that neither digitization
will sound as good as the
vinyl. They';re never backed up with anything like hard
evidence, of course
but they're not at all uncommon. So if you ever feel like
being thus astonished, or perhaps depressed, visit
audioasylum.com or stevehoffman.tv

I was discussing the results of some of my recent tests of MP3 coders with a
friend who had a long, sucessful career transferring analog tape to movie
film optical sound tracks. When I described how modern MP3 coders tend to
reduce information content by bringing up the noise level between musical
tones, he said: "You mean like vinyl or analog tape"?

LOL!