All of the literature and hyperbole about sampling seems to center around bit resolution and there’s a simple way to understand it. Imagine the screen of a television set. A close look at the screen will show that it’s made up of small dots
(pixels). If the dots were twice as big on the same screen, the picture would still be legible, but it’s clarity would be greatly reduced. Conversely, twice the amount of dots as the original would result in a picture of stunning detail. In sampling, instead of pixels we are dealing with computer data; more specifically, bit words. One bit word of information can be 8, 12, 16, or 18 bits long, hence the higher the bit resolution, the more accurate the reproduction of the sound sampled.
