On Tuesday 09 June 2009 00:10:08 Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > You I am afraid are being a little bit silly. a) you cannot hear anything > > above 22KHz. b) there is nothing recorded on the vinyl above that. The > > recording and cutting equipment certainly cut it off above that. > > But one very well hears pre-echoes created by (almost) brick wall filters > needed for low sample rates, especially for 44.1kHz. And some would argue that higher order harmonics can influence the frequency range we can hear... like in real life. There is also something about maximizing a digital snapshot of an analog medium that then becomes the canonical master version long after the original medium has dissapeared. --markc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user