Phil Leigh;400107 Wrote: 
> Mr. O - you are completely correct. Test rig was 16/44 flac into
> SB3+DAC. Control recording at vol=100. Subsequent tests at
> 90/80/70/60/50/40/30 all gave a correlation depth of -78dB to -81dB
> with no music detectable in the difference tracks.
> 
> Unless anyone can state a good reason otherwise, I think this disproves
> the myth that the digital level control "loses information"/ damages the
> music. 
> 

There comes me one thing to my mind. Recently someone really abxed
different types of dither in bit reduced files on Hydrogen.
Since the dither should be burried as deep as at least these -78dB you
measure i'd be caucious about saying it can't be heard. Dither also
includes no music material.


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