Saxguy007:

Since your incoming audio is digitized before it enters the computer, your computer system has one limiting factor, the digital noise level or noise floor.

Digital noise is generated predominately by the power supply but also by other internal computer components. You can find out the noise floor for your computer by setting Reapers record vu meters to be as sensitive as possible, turn the recording input volume up as far as it will go without anything connected to any recording input then press record. The db level the record vu meter floats at is your computer's noise floor. If your record db level floats in the -80 to -90 db range, you will never hear the noise, not even in your quiet passages.

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