1. Does that apply to everyone or just you? If it's everyone, then I want to answer by calling you a liar and a troll or at the very least, ignorant and deluded. However, we can't "answer the way we want to" here, there are TOS and forum etiquette/rules so I will not answer the way I want. Instead, I'll just say that your failure to provide any supporting evidence for your outrageous claims, plus your rather aggressive response in order to deflect and avoid presenting any, creates a strong indication/implication which others can easily deduce for themselves.
1a. Yes it does matter and yes you DO have something to prove, or at least, you have to provide some reliable supporting evidence for any claim which contradicts the actual/known facts. Failure to do so is effectively a tacit agreement that your assertion was FALSE/INCORRECT, based on a simple misunderstanding/misinterpretation of the actual facts at one extreme or at the other extreme, based on a deliberate lie, delusion and/or intention to troll this forum. In essence, this has already been explained to you, MORE THAN ONCE and yet you continue to do the same thing, strongly indicating "the other extreme"! if you don't want to follow the rules/etiquette of this forum then either leave and find another forum, where made-up nonsense is more acceptable, or stay and have your nonsense refuted, make yourself appear more and more ignorant/foolish and eventually probably get banned anyway! What's your choice?
2. This is the second time you've implied you have some formal qualification in music/audio engineering, is this really your claim?
OK, this statement is where you seem to have gone wrong and stated the exact opposite to what you apparently intended to state. Your assumption is incorrect, in fact it's backwards. Bit #1, more formally called the Most Significant Bit (MSB), is effectively = -6 to 0dBFS and bit #16, which in a 16bit format is more formally called the Least Significant Bit (LSB), is effectively = -96dB to -90dB. A more heavily compressed/crushed signal therefore employs fewer bits, NOT more/all.
Yep, clearly very "wrong" indeed but others have already pointed it out.
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