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In Reply to: Here's what one finds using Google: posted by carcass93 on April 20, 2014 at 15:45:36:
"The question, of course, becomes whether it's audible in one's system with one's ears - but there's no doubt that, at least theoretically, dithering is not harmless to sound quality."
The absence of dither when it should have been used grossly affects sound quality at 16 bits. A low level sine wave just above the threshold is clearly audible as a clean sine wave with dither, but turns into a square wave without dither. Just below the threshold, a low level sine wave will still be audible above the noise with dither, but will be completely silent without dither. With recordings of acoustic music made in large concert halls one can hear the effect as a musical note fades out in the hall reverberations. With dither, the echos fade smoothly down to and below the noise floor. Without dither, the hall reverberations fade into gross distortion just before becoming abruptly cut off. The same effect occurs with studio recordings that have been manually faded at the end of a track. These effects are readily audible if one listens at natural (concert) volume in a quiet room on a resolving system.
Tony Lauck
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