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Could this be one reason tubes (and perhaps records) sound better?
My belated thanks to jnorris2005 and atdavid for their critical comments warning of sales pitches (I suspected that one) and educating me about dithering vs pure white noise. Perhaps someone has built or will build the kind of variable source that... 
Could this be one reason tubes (and perhaps records) sound better?
Thank you millercarbon for pointing me to the literature on dithering and your patient explanation! It would seem the whole added-noise topic has implications for all the tweaks audiophiles pursue to eliminate or modify the noise in the system (in... 
Could this be one reason tubes (and perhaps records) sound better?
It might be that in striving to create noise-free systems, solid-state and digital audio went below subjectively optimal levels. That suggests experimenting with adding slight amounts of white noise to virtually noise-free solid-state systems t...