Patrick Dixon;288515 Wrote: > Well no it's not. The noise won't be truly random unless you dither, > and the audibility of noise depends on its character as well as it's > amplitude. Although distortion is more audible than random noise, when it's 144db down you can't hear it.
I don't know what the thresholds are but there *is* a limit to hearing distortion, or signal-correlated noise, too. But I'm pretty sure you couldn't hear fingernails on a blackboard, or a pneumatic drill, at 144db down! Darren -- darrenyeats SB3 / Inguz -> Krell KAV-300i (pre bypass) -> PMC AB-1 Dell laptop -> JVC UX-C30 mini system ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45736 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
