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While all rate conversions are lossy...

An asychronous conversion (by which you appear to mean something that isn't a small integer ratio, which is not what I would mean by asynchronous) does not have to be any more lossy than a ratio 2:1 conversion, etc.

However, it is possible for the 16/44 version to be as good or better, since you are capturing originally with less noise, and as a result have less residual noise to add to the requantization and dithering to 16 bits. You also get a teeny-tiny (3dB) bit of oversampling advantage when you do this.


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  • While all rate conversions are lossy... - real_jj 12:51:16 05/25/06 (0)


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