Comments by "Chef Chaudard" (@chefchaudard3580) on "Digital audio needed videotape to be possible - and the early days were wild!" video.

I remember from my time as a digital tape recorders technician that 16 bits ADCs were not very accurate (12 bits had +/- 1 bits accuracy while 14 and 16 bits were worst, leading to some "distorsion".) That was not relevant for sound recording, as it offered better signal to noise ratio, but was when it was signals from sensors where accuracy was more important.
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