[Ethan Winer]

Folks,

Debate rages in both audiophile and professional audio circles about the importance of low-level artifacts such as distortion, jitter, quantization noise, and summing errors in DAW software. This article addresses the audibility of very soft artifacts, and includes Wave files you can download to discover for yourself at what volume level these artifacts can be heard.

http://www.ethanwiner.com/audibility.html

--Ethan

[miklorsmith]

Thanks for doing this Ethan, very cool.

What is the nature of the added artifacts?  Were you able to jitter a signal and record it at varying levels?

[Ethan Winer]

It's all explained in the article!

--Ethan

[mfsoa]

You should make a set of identical files, tell us how they "differ" and let us pontificate on the night-and-day differences we hear!!

That'd surely egg our faces

-Mike

[Ethan Winer]

Heh, I already did that:

www.ethanwiner.com/dither.html

--Ethan

[Toka]

Thanks for taking the time/effort, Ethan! Most interesting. 

[Geardaddy]

Thanks Ethan and thank you for battling with us on the jitter thread...!