When I moved to 24 bit when I went to the 7 series recorder, I kinda had to tighten up my post-recording game out of necessity. I have been playing around with my buddy's masters of Davis Gilmour he stealthed at Radio City. He was running full body mk4's >744 from the lower level balcony (DFC, by the way) and ran the levels low and sfae, to prevent messing with it and getting busted.
I used Soundforge 7.0, and pumped the levels in the volume control to like -2 @ 24 bit then dithered to 16 and these disc sound amazing...zero hiss, nice high's and lows.