-----Original Message----- From Eric Jacobs: "...The reality - unfortunately - is that the archival audio market is barely a blip on the radar for most of these software vendors..." You are very mistaken if you believe only archival audio people are interested in software that doesn't alter audio data except when you want it to! Many of us have been holding developers' heels to the fire on this issue for a decade and great strides have been made by the most common pro developers. A very simple, although obviously not conclusive test is to record a 16 bit source in a 24 or 32 bit file and count the active bits that come out which should still be 16, assuming dithering has been disabled for test. Bob Olhsson Audio Mastery, Nashville TN Mastering, Audio for Picture, Mix Evaluation and Quality Control Over 40 years making people sound better than they ever imagined! 615.385.8051 http://www.hyperback.com http://www.thewombforums.com