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Scott Dorsey
 
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wrote:

The original intention was to cover the distortion with the noise. By
that specific one by the last bit has it worked, but this was only the
mouse. The elephant stays there, which is not possible to fight with
dither: The switching distortion.


No. Not at all. The original intention _was_ to linearize the system.
The mathematics of dither were worked out in the 1950s by the Bell Lab
folks.

And yes, dither DOES fight crossover distortion. That's the main benefit,
in fact.
--scott

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