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What dB level corosponds to the lower 8 bits of a 24 bit pcm/wav file?

PCM samples in a wav file are coded in 2's complement. For a N bits sample size, it means that the maximum positive sample value is 2^(N-1) - 1 and the minimum negative value is -2^(N-1). For N = 24, ...
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