[Audio_Empire[_2_]]

On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:41:31 AM UTC-8, Andrew Haley wrote:

He wasn't asking for more assertions, but evidence.

I'd like to recommend that you read Resolution Below the Least
Significant Bit in Digital Systems with Dither by Vanderkooy and
Lip****z. This very famous paper (available on the Internet if you
search for it) comes to the same conclusion as Dick Pierce: dither
effectively turns [all of] the signal distortion caused by quantization
into wide-band noise. If you can find any fault in that paper, it
would be interesting to see you present it here.

They say:

We feel that the audio community in general does not yet understand
the nature of quantization error in digital systems, and in
particular the beneficial effects of adding an appropriate amount of
dither. We shall show that dither really does remove the "digital"
aspects of quantization error, leaving an equivalent analog signal
with high resolution and some benign wide-band noise.

Isn't that "benign wide-band noise" essentially below the threshold of
audibility?
I would think that it would be. Can someone address this question?