Ok... will go out on a limb and say it: you can not possibly get so much cleaner and sharper results just by going 32 vs. 16. There must be an error in your comparison workflow.
Well Slo, there's only one way to find out.
Try it yourself, it will take you less than the time you've spent thinking and questioning all this!
P.S. What is the Latin translation for "What can be asserted
with evidence cannot be dismissed
without evidence."