Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Dither, ways to improve CD sound Message-ID: <1452@hound.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 23:40:32 EST Article-I.D.: hound.1452 Posted: Wed Oct 30 23:40:32 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 01:48:39 EST References: <148@birtch.UUCP> <193@polaris.UUCP> <63@birtch.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 12 [] Am I a pedant for saying that noise added after decoding is not dither? Its just masking noise, like somepeople add to their bedrooms to help them sleep, and others add to their office environments for presumably the same reason :-) Noise added in coding produces the effect known as "dither". It would be just like Carver to misuse names, genius that he is. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg