On 10-02-08 18:39, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-10 02:26:33 +0100, Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Suggesting 16-bit and 44.1 kHz is just completely out of date. Heck, _CD_ is >> completely out of date. > > But OTOH, SACD and DVD-Audio didn't really make it to the market. SACD somewhat, but not really no. But I recently bough a Neil Young Best Of for example that came with a DVD with the entire album in 24-bit/96kHz LPCM in addition to the regular CD. Also have a few audio releases with 16-bit 48 kHz LPCM, and quite a few with "the entire album mixed in 5.1 <exclamation mark> <exclamation mark>" 16-bit 48 kHz AC3. That not even mentioning Music DVDs (ie, a concert) ofcourse, which nearly always are in 48 kHz, sometimes PCM, mostly AC3. And now Blu-Ray is coming along where one can expect higher sampling rates since people are feeding their hometheater sets that can do those rates from those players. As to pure music; CD singles have already gone totally extinct starting this year with that market completely shifting online and while regular CDs will continue to be made for quite some time still -- when more of that market moves online as well it'll (probably) start out as 16-bit 44100 but will not remain so for long after people notice there's not a single point to 44100 there anymore. If I've been paying attention there's quite a few cheapo soundcards out there today that don't even do 44100 natively? So, sure, it's maybe not _totally_ vital or anything yet, but suggesting 16-bit/44110 is still all one might really need today is as far as I'm concerned an obsolete standpoint. I'd definitely not advice anything other than 24-bit/192 kHz myself and seeing as how (relatively, and as far as I'm aware) cheapo CMI chips do those fine, I'd just not bother with anything less than that. Could you by the way be persuaded to not set Mail-Followup-To headers? It makes people send themselves messages and turns CCs into To's. Rene. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
