[linux-audio-user] External DAC for mastering use?

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:49:03AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I will also point out that you would not, I think, be able to hear the 
> direct effects of your choice of dither in this setup. All audio you 
> send to this unit would have to be dithered so all you could do would be 
> make a comparitive judgement. While that might suit your needs, it's not 
> optimum and as far as mastering goes really a pretty big limitation 
> depending on the source material you might be working with.

Thats a very good point - the dithering used by jackd to produce 16bit
output should be reproducable when you go to burn CDs, otherwise the sound
on the final CD will be subtly different.

Hmm... thinking...

- Steve

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