I remember some time back, an issue w/ Wavelab and resampling/dithering came up. When you resample/dither with plugins in Wavelab the specs in the lower right hand corner (and the specs after you save the file and look at it in windows for that matter) would reflect the chaged sample rate, but not the changed bit rate. Well I finally got an answer as to why...
"Hi Scott,
a plugin can change the sample rate of a file, but it cannot change the bit depth. It will truncate the last bits by filling these with zeros, but the they're not cut from the file.
This can only be done by WaveLab, for example using the *save as* dialog. Another (time-saving) option would be creating a *specific file* from the render dialog, there you can specify the desired bit depth."
I still think it's annoying
, but at least I found out why it's happening. Just thought peeps would want to know about it.