[waterboy]

Hi knewbee,

Don't mean to appropriate this thread, but I just wanted to expand on my reasons for choosing PowR dither over some of the others.

Frankly, I gravitated to PowR in the first place because of the collective pedigrees of the design team and the number of golden-eared folks (working in pristine monitoring environments) that rave about it.

There are many factors that come into play when evaluating the effectiveness of an oft-times subtle process like dither:

The noise-floor of your raw tracks
The complexity of your mix -- ie how many plugs, how much gain manipulation (and where in the signal-path you change the gain), etc.
The nature of the music -- ie synthesized, panpotted and rhythmically dense vs acoustic, stereo miced, and sparse
The quality of your convertors, monitors, and acoustical treatment.

In my own work, I can tell the difference about 20% of the time-- but its that 20% when all of the above-mentioned factors are dilligently accounted for that the quality of the PowR dither really becomes apparent.