[linux-audio-user] Re: Companies Refusing to Release/Permit Linux Drivers

[plutek]

philicorda wrote:

>Paradoxically, the only way to avoid digital artifacts is by the use of
>dithering. This can be proved. There is such thing as correct dithering.
>  
>
perhaps we should fork this discussion off at some point...... anyway, i 
agree with your assessment of the state of digital fidelity and also the 
importance of good dithering. i have two questions:

1. how would you characterize correct dithering?
2. are there existing LINUX tools to do it properly?

back when i used windows, i found the FIR-based noise-shaping dither in 
"Resample" from SoundsLogical to be much more pleasing to the ear in 
ambient tails, than other types i had used. unfortunately, the best i 
have seen in linux-based tools is triangular dither.

.pltk.