Tested: Difference between 16-bit and 24-bit audio

Posted on Sunday, March 06 2011 @ 7:20 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Tested has taken a look at the difference between 16-bit and 24-bit audio, you can read the indepth article over here.
When it comes to judging digital music quality, the discussion usually begins and ends with bitrate. A song encoded at 320 kilobits/second is going to sound a whole lot better than a song with a 128kbps bitrate, right? Well, sure, but it’s a bit more complicated than that. Bitrate stems from two different elements: bit depth and sample rate. Here’s where we can understand the difference between 16-bit and 24-bit audio..


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