[LAU] Dithering...should we dither about it?

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sun Mar 2 02:43:40 UTC 2014


On 03/01/2014 08:51 AM, Harry van Haaren wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Brent Busby <brent at keycorner.org
> <mailto:brent at keycorner.org>> wrote:
>  > How do you usually dither?  Does it make a difference?
>
> I'll just throw this up, its a good overview of dither types, and *why*
> it makes a cleaner mix (for humans):
> http://wiki.xiph.org/Videos/Digital_Show_and_Tell#Dither
>
> (that's the accompanying document for this video:
> http://www.xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml )
>
> I generally export to 32bit float .flac... so no dithering (or burning
> to CD's :)

Hmm, I thought FLAC only did 24-bit???

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