Rodney_Gold wrote: > The one thing I have found in the digital domain , especially using a > few DSP units in the effects loop is that various flavours of dither and > noise shaping have a fairly large effect on the sonics.
Unlike jitter, which I believe to be mostly audiophile hype, dither and noise shaping are real. It does not take much to tell a proper dither from a naive truncation after you apply some DSP to the signal. This is why a lot of post-production is done using 24 bit processing, even if the source is just 16 bit. By keeping it 24 bits and then doing proper dithering as you output the 16 bits for RedBook, it makes a big and easily audible difference. There are also serious arguments about which dithering algorithm to use, but the short answer is that any real dithering algorithm when going from 24 bits to 16 is way better than just chopping off the low order bits. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
