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Old 18th July 2007   #17
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Dither decreases distortion by a great deal more than the increase in noise level. It doesn't just cover up the distortion.

Also while dither sounds like noise, you can't assume noise will reduce distortion like dither. There is also subtractive dither where the dither is nulled out after the quantization.
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