[Trombone-l] iPod as audio recorder [Was: Advice onMinidiskRecorders]

[Jeff Albert]

On 10/19/06, Daniel Pliskin <daniel_pliskin at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> All this talk about CD quality is a bit misleading.  In studio digital
> recording, tracks are recorded at considerably higher bit rates and at 24
> bits of resolution.  Doing so allows the engineer to have a little
> headroom,
> so that signals don't clip and compression isn't needed.



No, headroom is not a function of bit rate or sample  rate.  You can clip 24
bit 96 k just as easy as 16/44.1.  Bit rate and sample rate  only measure
the amount of information stored.

Jeff


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