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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 4953531" data-attributes="member: 5202">CDs are recorded at 16bit/44.1khz (dvd is capable of 24bit/96khz, altho wikipedia claims 24bit/192khz possible for dvd-audio).  Analog recordings have the entire waveform and are smooth soundwaves, with the full curve.  digital to audio converters take the analog signal and process the initial signal and create the digital one.  The digital form is never the original smooth waveform, however, the higher the bit-rate, the more individual samples in any given second of the audio.  Thus a higher bit-rate will produce a sound closer to the original waveform.As an example, the NES had 8 bit sound capabilities (as did the ubiquitous Casio SK-1 keyboard many kids had in the 80s).  Compare the sounds from that with the SNES or Sega Genesis that had 16bit sound.  Then compare that with the sounds produced by modern consoles.  Another interesting example is the recent Beatles album reissues.  They released a box set of 11 albums mixed in mono, like many of them were originally mixed for, as well as a 14 disc set of the stereo versions.  I've only purchased the Abbey Road disc so far, but I have been able to tell definite differences with the earlier cd pressing.  The bass is generally slightly more mellow, the vocal harmonies come out much better.  Paul McCartney was talking about the new remasters and he said that listening to the new versions makes him feel like he's back in the room recording them.  I wish that author had happened to think to ask him to compare that to the original vinyl <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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