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Many recording are dithered. Dithering adds noise in order to linearize the lower bits of the signal so hissing in many recordings is normal. The hiss should however go away when you press pause. Some types of dither used use noise shaped hiss which produces a sharp increase in the high frquencies of the dither noise. Chesky records does this for example. By moving the noise up to the highend of the audio spectrum the noise is actually less audible to most people & hence you han hear even softer sounds in the midrange before being covered by noise.
Originally Posted by freestyler /img/forum/go_quote.gif So my ST arrived 2 days ago. Boy, it has some power! Listening to shotgun fire's from movies will scare you off. I've got a problem. I've been reading from many people that the STX / ST are very quite cards yet i can hear much hissing from mine. (tested on some of the best recordings) I know my card is in a noisy environment between my PSU (good quality corsair hx620) and video card. On my pc case the PSU is positioned on the bottom. Plus some fans are making some noise so do you think that's the problem? I remember some songs the first hour i had installed the card, sounded like hissing mess. |
Many recording are dithered. Dithering adds noise in order to linearize the lower bits of the signal so hissing in many recordings is normal. The hiss should however go away when you press pause. Some types of dither used use noise shaped hiss which produces a sharp increase in the high frquencies of the dither noise. Chesky records does this for example. By moving the noise up to the highend of the audio spectrum the noise is actually less audible to most people & hence you han hear even softer sounds in the midrange before being covered by noise.