Marcel Müller wrote:
> Phil wrote:
>> I realize I can record at lower safer levels with the 24bit resolution
>> but I was wondering if sampling at 96 or 88 and resampling to my final
>> level of 44.1 after post processing has any advantage.
>
> I would wonder if there are consumer devices out where 48/16 is the
> limiting factor. Usually the SNR is limited more or less below 90dB by
> anything else in the signal path. And most devices use oversampling
> anyway. Normally the dynamics and bandwidth of 48/16 is sufficient for
> any home audio application.
> Of course, if we are talking about professional recording devices at
> least the 24 bit are useful because it makes the recording level much
> more safe. And for measurement purposes 96kHz is useful too.
> Whether 88 or 96kHz is useful for your post processing is another
> question. In theory it is not, unless you do a frequency transformation.
>
>
> Marcel

Marcel basically covered it. In general, it will depend on what
processing you do.

Because sampling with more quantization levels and at a higher rate will
give you a better SNR. And any processing, processes the signal and the
noise. So if your processing has some feedback that creates unhappy
situations with processing noise. But I am guessing in you situation
any such processing is probably not going to be encountered or significant.

Most ADCs internally oversample and then downsample to get better SNR.
Interestingly many also use less quantization levels and much higher
sampling rate, which sort of cancel each other out.

J. Elms