Your site says you have three flavors. Do you use all three? Different ones in different scenarios?

-Lavry Engineering Dithering with Acoustic Bit Correction®
-Apogee UV-22 HR Software Dithering system
-POW-r Dithering system

I have access to the last two, as well as WavesIDR, plus however it is that my Akai DPS24 does it...

I've seen people do listening tests, but as someone who does mastering...do you have a fave? How different are they?

Whoops! I forgot the Apogee UV22 Hardware!

I'm in Bob Katz's corner on this one - sometimes.

The pow-r #3 is pretty cool. However, Samplitude's stock "dither with triangular noise spread" is very nice also. The differences between most quality dithering is so subtle... I could only *really* hear the difference that led me to pow-r #3 in a very dynamic and punchy classical mix. Even then, it was an A/B situation - If I'd have left the room and someone switched it, I doubt I would've noticed when I came back in. It had to go back and forth to hear it clearly.

I wish it *really* made a difference on most of today's stuff... It's ironic that the best dithering systems (UV22HR, pow-r, etc.) are coming out now, in the middle of the volume wars. On a lot of modern discs, I would imagine that many people couldn't tell if the audio was properly dithered at all.

What good is dither when you only use the top 2 bits!

-Dusty

Ok. I hear you.

I'm not gonna worry my pretty little head about it.