Yeh , I used to use a Meridian 518 to do dither downwards in the old days ... I just wondered why , without any eq , the DEQ had such a pronounced difference between 24 bit and off ..off had deeper bass and a lot more ambience than 24 bit which sounded more toe tapping and had a more "staccato" type of bass and far less ambeince ...obviously something to do with the 2496's manipulation of the signal as it comes out the digital portion of the TP (using AES). I was listening thru the phones and it really was an instantly noticeable difference. In fact , I have found just inserting a "digital box" even when used in bypass mode , has a sonic signature in a lot of digital equipment , for example just using the meridian 518 and merely passing thru a 16/44.1 signal from a transport had a sonic effect - not always a desireable one at that.
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