arnyk wrote: > I'll add something here. There is something called self-dither. Most > commercial recordings have so much built-in random noise that they > effectively dither the downstream reproduction chain and cover up any > stages that should be dithered but aren't. This would probably become > apparent if DBTs were used to evaluate the issues raised in this thread. Right. Plus the studio probably does all sorts of processing in floating point at a high bit rate - when they reduce effective bit depth for the 16/44 file they will have no choice but to add dither at 16 bits to avoid distortion.
However a correctly implemented volume control will handle any type of recording, at any bit depth, at any volume level, without adding any distortion. Check it, add to it! http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/ SB Touch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104629 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
