Hello Everyone, For anyone who is interested, the second in our series of 24-bit comparisions has gone out through Twitter. This time we even have a 192kHz Studio Master! This one is from the Beethoven Piano Concertos by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, with Sir Charles Mackerras and Artur...

Quote: Originally Posted by D. Lundberg Dither does not reproduce waveforms at all, it is used to decorrelate quantization errors from a signal. Yes, I should have been more clear there. Quote: Originally Posted by D. Lundberg "[...] if the quantisation is performed...

Quote: Originally Posted by xnor I don't know if you understand what's going on. A single sample usually is represented by a floating point number in the range [0; 1]. (0.0 is silence, 1.0 is clipping) Floats normally have 32 bits, so they allow a pretty fine resolution...

Quote: Originally Posted by leeperry ok thanks for the clarifications...but HDCD is not true 24bit, it's actually dithered 20bit AFAIK? and saying that the only 16/24bit difference makes a very much audible difference in this very thread might require some more informations from your...

Quote: Originally Posted by leeperry some manufacturer posted some supposedly 16/24bit files w/ a huge SQ difference, but the mods killed it?! That was us. Linn Records. We didn't actually say there was a huge SQ difference. Don't now why the mods killed it ... perhaps I...