[ReZound-users] 64 bits

[John O. <jo...@mc...>]

Davy,

Recently I read a comment about Tony Faulkner, perhaps the most respected 
British recording engineer for his ability to recreate the original 
acoustical space of (non-amplified) performances.  It said that he has been 
mastering his most recent recordings without dithering and they sound better! 

The only way I can figure to get away with that (and have it sound good) would 
be to use professional equipment doing 64 bit floating point calculations, 
pushing the rounding error into the sub-basement.  Does that make sense?

Given the fact that Gentoo and I believe some other distributions now support 
the Athlon XP64 chip in 64 bit mode, what are the hurdles to getting ReZound 
to work with 64 bit floats? I assume that some libraries would need to be 
upgraded first.  It _might_ be an effective way to catapult ReZound past the 
other Linux sound editors and into direct competition with some serious pro 
equipment. Then again the difference might be inaudible. 

Just a random thought.

John