sandslash
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Whereas 16-bit is enough for the playback format, I argue that if one uses digital volume control it is still better to use a 24-bit DAC. Every time you halve the digital volume control, you truncate one bit of dynamic range. Depending on the peak listening volume of yours, if you have the downstream amplification at high gain and digital volume control really low before it, the quantization error can become an audible problem at some point if you use a 16-bit DAC.