Nah, actually I did hit one edge case where you could start to hear the quantisation noise : if you run drum samples through high distortion (> 40 dB), the fade outs start to sound bitcrushed).
It's still not true 24bit, but it "normalises" the waveforms every 1024 samples by up to 8bit, so even if you create test signals to artificially create the quantisation noise, it will get masked by the transients.
It will still use 16bit buffers for preloading and streaming, since this is the main reason why I chose the 16bit things.
Also since the end user is extracting the HLAC monoliths from a FLAC archive, you can let the end user choose whether he wants to favor disk space or sound quality.
Since most of the projects I'll be doing in the near future are somehow percussion based, I thought now's the time
