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Topic: Is 16/44.1 PCM and 16/48 LPCM lossy? (Read 1930 times) previous topic - next topic
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Is 16/44.1 PCM and 16/48 LPCM lossy?

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Is 16/44.1 PCM and 16/48 LPCM lossy?

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Studios typically work with very high initial recording quality, yes. And yes, when you discard bits or samples/time, that conversion is lossy.

Of course, most of the quality of 24/96 (and above) is stuff that humans would be totally unable to distinguish, and basically gives the engineers a lot of room in which to play around before dithering the final product down to fewer bits and lower samplerate.

(Sorry, I was just worried that people would pop up asking "do I now need to go re-rip my whole collection in 24 bits and 96kHz samplerate?")
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