On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:19:59 +0100, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: > imnsho, all this sampling rate hype is a clever industry ploy to keep > people from thinking that their hardware is finally good enough and they > can stop buying now. Probably true but... > people can't hear over 20k. period. 48k sampling rate gives you 24k > minus what's cropped off by the aliasing filter. granted, higher > sampling allows you to use a simpler, less steep aliasing filter, and > some people claim to perceive an improvement from that. but even then, > 96k should be enough. This is not quite correct. While humans can not hear continuous tones over 20-odd kHz that is not the whole story, the frequency reproduction also limits the minimum transient rise time, which is detected by a different part of the ear (IIRC, IANABiologist and my psychoacoustics textbook is at work). I dont know wether I, personally can tell the difference between a 48 and 96 recording, but I'm not going to rule it out. - Steve
