On 10/23/2011 08:20 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
How much is a lot ? What's the amplitude in the noise ? If it's something like 1/65536 of the maximum level, that's not what I'd call « a lot »...
it is more. after normalizing i had about 8 different sample values (including zero) in the file. the (unnormalized) noise is audible, when the volume is rather high, it is at least 2 times louder than the "natural" noisefloor of my soundcard/amp/speakers.
...and i have archived all my music as flac using audacity, since 2006. fortunately i should still have the original 32bit float files somwhere in my cdr-pile...
it is also explained here:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Dither
Personally, I don't understand what's the point of dither in audio. Maybe it's just an evil plot to make CD quality sound like 8-track cartridges.
bis denn! martin