Yes, when FastTracker 2 introduced 16-bit samples, the noise floor lowered from -50 dB FS to -98 db FS. Quantization rounding error drops from 0.1958 dB to 0.001497 dB. That's two orders of magnitude. It was good enough for compact discs which billions of people listened to. The majority of streaming music is encoded from 16-bit PCM.I'm not a fan of dither either, but I remember doing experiments with SoundEdit 1.0 back in 1990 and you will have quantization noise in 8-bit. In all other higher bit audio, I feel that that the dither and quantization is usually invisible to our ears whether it's there or not. I quit using dither back in 2007 and nobody ever complained about it nor noticed. But I really do think you're maybe just hearing quantization noise and not dither. So you'll have to just cope with it and maybe do some manual edits if possible.
Statistics: Posted by yellowmix — Fri Aug 23, 2024 1:40 am