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Old 8th December 2006   #10
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Originally Posted by 16/44.1 View Post
Why not twice?
During A/D conversion there will be dither added.
With the majority of current converters this is not true at all. For example my Mytek ADC gives the option of recording at 24bits without any dither added, or at 16bits with either TPDF or Mytek's own "Supershaper" algorithm. If you are recording at 24bits then there is no need to add dither during AD conversion at all, as the 24th least significant bit will be far below the noise floor of your source anyway.

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