16-bit CD resolution suffices for most delivery despite 24-bit studio benefits

Evidence

Historically, the bottleneck in audio quality has been the storing and transmission systems, such as gramophones, vinyl players, and cassette decks. The concept of high fidelity was developed to measure and minimize different deviations from perfect responses, such as linear and non-linear distortions. Nowadays, digital transmission has practically removed such problems, and currently the biggest bottlenecks are the microphones and loudspeakers. However, new challenges have emerged with perceptually based lossy audio codecs. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 2360 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Audio quality bottlenecks shifted from storage to transducers — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 2360

Related

• Audio quality bottlenecks shifted from storage to transducers (similarity 0.91)
• Digital audio’s only advantage is storage efficiency and robustness (similarity 0.91)
• Digital audio storage is lossless yet still requires analogue transducers at the human interface (similarity 0.89)
• Discrete quadraphonic LP technology improved conventional two-channel record quality. (similarity 0.87)
• 16-bit CD audio suffices for most program material while 24-bit exceeds delivery needs (similarity 0.86)
• Transducers dominate perceived sound quality more than other chain components (similarity 0.81)
• Required audio fidelity scales with the application’s communicative demands (similarity 0.80)
• Audio coding systems compress signals to fit limited channels and storage (similarity 0.79)
• Most audio reproduction chain components are now perceptually flawless (similarity 0.79)
• Lossy audio codecs improve encoder-side while keeping decoder standards fixed (similarity 0.79)
• Each added quantization bit yields 6dB SNR improvement (similarity 0.79)
• Logarithmic quantization suits speech but distorts music beyond tolerance (similarity 0.78)
• Audio coders prefer critically sampled filter banks for minimal data transmission. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Audio quality bottlenecks shifted from storage to transducers #corroborates (0.82) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 2360