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In Reply to: RE: Dither-'cause posted by fmak on April 20, 2014 at 21:58:08
Consider this: if people could not hear any differences between 16 bit and 24 bit that would have been a good demonstration that there is no benefit in distributing music to consumers in 24 bits. However, given that people have heard differences, one realizes immediately that there is an advantage in sound quality, namely distribute in 24 bits, if only to avoid the possibility that the dither step was done poorly.
One can not use a single set of listening tests to isolate the cause of sonic differences, only to ascertain that there were sonic differences. To attribute a cause one needs a model of possible causes and then one needs to conduct a series of experiments to isolate the cause that accounts for the effects heard. Such an experimental program has to start somewhere, and the obvious one where bit depth is involved is the type of experiment that Archimago has offered. If differences are found, then more exploration can be done to find out if there is a form of dither that would minimize these differences, possibly to the point where most people could not hear them. I think it unlikely that Archimago botched the use of dither in creating his test files. Most audio editing programs have a good implementation of the basic dither as this has been known for decades.
I should think it rather obvious, this being an Asylum, that all of these experiments are just being done for fun and are not likely to end up in a peer reviewed journal.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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Having raised a question and having it answered, I think you are just trying to score points as you often do.
I have better things to do.
What is not acceptable is someone carrying out a survey on questionable premises, as the result will no doubt be publicised as a valid conclusion.
In the past I've questioned the premises behind Archimago's posts and survey's, but in this case I did not do so because I could find nothing wrong with his premises. He does not deserve unwarranted sniping in this thread.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
your 'mastering' expertise claim is suspect.
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