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by Zamiel_Snawley 695 days ago
I don’t deal with audio, but I do use high frequency DACs/ADCs.

I have never found a DAC that actually has useful/detectable output differences above 16-18 bits. I’m not talking about audible, I mean with oscilloscopes. Many DACs take 32 bit inputs, but those extra bits aren’t useful in the real world.

The integral and differential non linearity of DACs in the real world make those extra bits misleading.