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Old July 1st 08, 12:26 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Eeyore
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Rob wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
Rob wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
Arny Krueger wrote:
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Couple of the Wki things - 24 bit recording isn't always
dithered,
As a practical matter *every* real-world 24 bit audio recording *is*
dithered by random noise from other parts of the recording chain.
You'd be be hard preseed NOT to dither a 24 bit recording - LMAO !

Silly beyond extreme.
No point shooting messenger people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantiz...und_processing)


I intentionally didn't look up the reference since I was much more
interested in your interpretation of it.


"24-bit audio is sometimes used undithered"

Is mine a misinterpretation?


Well .... if you had a source with 144 dB s/n ratio it would be undithered.

Got it yet ?

Graham