On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:32:39PM +0400, Guy Clotilde wrote: > So that's not really use for me to have a 48 khz soundcard... Why such > a design from the manufacturer? Maybe it makes sense in mass > production... i always thought it was to facilitate mixing. 'consumers' expect to be able to play multiple things at once, with different sample rates. The only way to acheive this is resample everything to a single sample rate. 48 is a bigger number than 44. [In addition, user tests indicated that people were confused by the .1 in 44.1. :-)] a card which is concerned with quality will not process the audio in any way - including mixing - and will switch the output to the correct frequency. This does mean however that the system 'ding' will not sound while you're listening to an ogg :-) cheers -- Tim Orford
