An engineer adjusts the noise shaping filter within a digital audio workstation (DAW). Which consequence follows?

💡 Explanation

Noise shaping manipulates the spectral distribution of quantization noise. It leverages psychoacoustic masking, so perceived noise is minimized by shifting it into frequency bands where the human ear is less sensitive, rather than reducing total noise power. Therefore, perceived noise changes, rather than reducing quantization error uniformly across frequencies.

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