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Re: An actual technical post/question, just for a change of pace....

I don't have a complete handle on the situation, but my impression is that a lot of these assertions about dither result from the time averaging characteristics of spectrum analysis equipment rather that those of the human ear. I don't believe one is a direct substitute for the other when drawing conclusions about the perceptibility of quantization noise with and without dither, and IAC, dither does not 'eliminate' quantization noise - it just modifies and masks it to the point that standard spectrum analysis measurements have difficulty picking it out of the dithered signal. But that does not mean that the distortion of the resulting signal has lost all of its correlation to the musical signal as a true random noise source with a similar spectral signature would.

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