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Reduce the volume 24db (typical volume in normal listening) and you've knocked off 4 bits of resolution in your SACD or DVD-A recording.


This is of course very true, but isn't it also true that those 'lost bits' are (on gear like the 950) hopelessly buried more than 40 db below the noise floor? In a case like that I doubt I'd notice....

It was my understanding that, for instance, the 950 analog sections exhibit noise approximately equivalent to 15-17 bits of resolution, or 90-102 db S/N ratio? I'm not too worried about losing some resolution as the LSB drops to the -140 db zone. Should I be?
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Charlie