arnyk wrote: > In fact dither is quite effective with no filtering at all. It does what > it does due to some subtlties assocated with nonlinear processing. > > The dither does not reduce the errors caused by interactions between > the digital data and the word clock. Instead, it randomizes the errors > so that the ear is far less sensitive to them.
As it's well known that the ear can detect signals from actually below the noise level in some circumstances, the benefit of dither is pretty obvious in a digital audio signal and are certainly nothing to do with the filtering. As you know the filtering is required anyway due to, well, "Nyquist stuff". Funnily enough, Pioneer's highly respected plasma TVs used masses of dither to hide solarisation and colour banding in TV images too, as do many others now. The Panasonic's do it too, but not so aggressively. Plus of course cheap LCD displays dither when it suits them too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105507 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
