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Old 2004-12-30, 11:41 AM
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Re: Downsampling - how?

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Originally Posted by Five
I just looked right now, seems dithering is only useful for lowering bitdepth. What happened is they got digital audio so noise-free that they actually had to invent something to put a little bit of noise in. Check here:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~dsmitche/rim420...20_Dither.html
No! Dithering is useful to avoid quantization distortion after performing any kind of filtering that includes multiplication operations on sample values (and this includes things like volume changes and resampling!)

(And if you didn't understand what I just said, I'd suggest reading the article you linked to )
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