Eric Wong <[email protected]> writes: > Mans Rullgard <[email protected]> wrote: >> This adds a sigma-delta modulator for 1-bit (DSD) encoding. It is >> invoked by the "dither" effect when the output precision is 1-bit or >> manually with choice of the following noise-shaping filters: >> >> fast Reasonably good quality while fast enough for real-time >> operation. This is the default. >> >> hq Lower noise and distortion than "fast" at the expense of >> being much slower. >> >> audiophile >> Somewhat better quality than "hq" and almost twice as slow. >> >> goldenear >> Slightly higher quality than "audiophile" and considerably >> slower. > > Cute names, but perhaps "fast", "high", "higher", "highest" or even a > numeric values be more obvious; especially to folks with a smaller > English vocabulary.
Those names were meant as a bit of a joke. In fact, the last two modes could be considered jokes in themselves since they provide only a minuscule improvement at great expense in computing time. -- Måns Rullgård [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ SoX-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-devel
