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File is altered during save process

New Here ,
Oct 16, 2020 Oct 16, 2020

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I've got a file that contains only noise at the end. Investigating the FFT of this noise part is very important for me. If I select those last 2 seconds of this 16kHz/16bit/mono WAV file (plain PCM without any compression) I get this FFT:

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If I now copy these 2s and paste them into a new file (File->New->Audio File) with the exact same parameters (16kHz/16bit/mono WAV) and let the FFT run again on this new file, I get the exact same frequency response. Which is like it should be.
However, if I now save this newly created file, close it in Auditon and reopen it, there is a strange amplification for higher frequencies (blue line in the below FFT window).

 
 

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Is there any setting I could change to prevent this?
The "Smooth delte/cut boundaries...." and "Smooth all edit boundaries..." checkboxes under Edit->Preferences->Data are already unchecked, but without any change in the reported behavior.

 

I'm using version 13.0.10.32 on Win10

 

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Oct 16, 2020 Oct 16, 2020

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What happens if you save the file as 32bit float and re-open that?

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Oct 18, 2020 Oct 18, 2020

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If I save the file as 32bit float and re-open it, the frequency response matches the original.
I consider this a bug.

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Oct 19, 2020 Oct 19, 2020

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Could well be the dither applied to reduce the quantizing artifacts when down scalling from the internal 32 bit float to 16 bit.

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