Dear users, 
 
We would like to remind you about our introductory offer for our brand new PSP X-Dither - a high quality mastering dither and noise shaping processor plug-in (AudioUnit, VST, RTAS, AAX for Mac OSX & VST, RTAS, AAX for PC). 
Until 2nd January 2014 you can buy PSP X-Dither at the special introductory price of $69* Starting from 3rd January 2014 the regular price of $89* will be applied. As a registered user of our other processors plug-ins you can get PSP X-Dither at an even better price (up to 49% off of the regular intro price; the more plug-ins you have the better discount you get). To see your final price for the PSP X-Dither: log into your user account, go to the store and put the PSP X-Dither into your cart. (* all prices exclude taxes)
 Happy New Year!
Antoni Ozynski & Mateusz Wozniak
 
http://pspaudioware.com/plugins/tools_and_meters/psp_x-dither/
 
 
Can some of you technical wiz kid  types explain why anyone using Sonar and / or Ozone would need this?? I thought Sonar and Ozone both had good dithering systems.
 
A humble non technical Daw user.........
 
 

Presumably so that you can easily switch through, and listen to, the different choices during real time playback.
 
best regards,
mike

OK I see - I'll probably download the demo and give it a try - thanks Mike
Nigel
 
 

Somebody's still charging money for dither? Welcome to the 1980's! 
 
To answer the original question: nobody needs a boutique dither algorithm.
 
After you've got the demo, try exporting a song snippet with as many dither algorithms as you have: SONAR's built-in ones, Ozone's MBIT+, Voxengo Elephant if you have that, and PSP's new one. Be sure to include a sample with no dither at all. Then do a blind listening test and see if you can distinguish one from another. 

If you currently can't hear the dither+quantization_noise at a reasonably loud listening level in a quiet room, "better" dither will allow you to imagine you can hear it less.
 
 
But it does have a few features that might be useful for less than 16 bit output, if you're an 8 or 12 bit kind of guy.

I've checked them all out using reverb tails & always preferred Cakes Pow-r 1.
Dither is the least of my problems so I'll be passing on this.
 

Thanks Bit
Do you know, I think I won't bother downloading the demo - just something else I probably don't need so why waste time downloading and installing.
Nigel
 

Bajan Blue
...I think I won't bother downloading the demo - just something else I probably don't need so why waste time downloading and installing.
 

Oh my, Nigel, it'd be the downfall of the music software industry if that attitude caught on!