Topic: article on dithering 24>16 in this months stereophile

[sygdwm]

made my head hurt, but some of you guys may be able to "keep it simple stupid" for me. please discuss.

[Daryan]

The jist of it to me, was essentially that the dude was able to prove, at least using his measurements and ears, that a simply truncated signal, without sithering, compared to the same waveform, dithered down, sounded better.  That's what i got out of it at least, though I will admit, I haven't yet had time to finish the entire thing.

Daryan

[noahbickart]

That's what I got out of it. It seems strage given that all those ad2k+ users out there really seem to prefer one scheme over another.

Perhaps we could do a few listening tests around here. People with 24bit files could upload short samples of truncated vs. UV22 (or whatever)- and we can judge.

-Noah

[MattD]

Didn't the dither test webpage also have a truncated version posted to that site for comparison purposes? On that site, MegaBitMax pretty much blew away the competition.

[BobW]

I'd be very skeptical of one writer's opinion and I have VERY little faith in his discrimination method.
What he calls "white noise" may VERY well be spatial information taken out of context.

I'd love to hear the audio intelligencia have their way with the article.

Anyone down for writing Mike Grace, Doug Oade, a handful of recording engineers, and the techies at Sony and Apogee ?