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Question about Foobar 2000 and dithering

I've just bought a Terratec EWX24/96 and am using Foobar 0.7 RC7, and so I enable 24-bit and dithering. But I notice it says dont dither using higher than 16-bit. Why not? It seems to sound fine. But what sounds best... 16-bit and dithering, 24-bit and no dithering or 24-bit and dithering?

Thanks
Paul.

Music Shop -> CD -> EAC -> MPC Q6 -> Foobar 2000 -> Videologic Sonicfury -> Cambridge Audio DAC3 -> Rotel RA-01 amp -> Mission M51 speakers / Beyer DT880 headphones / Beyer DT770 Pro Headphones -> Ears -> Brain = SORTED!!

Question about Foobar 2000 and dithering

Reply #1 –
1. Dithering eats a lot of CPU time.
2. Differences between dithered and nondithered 24bit mode are at about -140dB. No hardware in the world has noise floor low enough for them to make it to analog signal. And if such hardware exists, you can't possibly get that low noise floor in your listening conditions, or notice those differences, as not many people can notice last bit differences in 16bit range (~-90dB).
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Question about Foobar 2000 and dithering

Reply #2 –
Thanks for that. I'll just continue to use 24-bit nondithered then.
Paul.

Music Shop -> CD -> EAC -> MPC Q6 -> Foobar 2000 -> Videologic Sonicfury -> Cambridge Audio DAC3 -> Rotel RA-01 amp -> Mission M51 speakers / Beyer DT880 headphones / Beyer DT770 Pro Headphones -> Ears -> Brain = SORTED!!