On Thursday 26 January 2006 14:23, Carlo Capocasa wrote: >> I've always thought that a soundcard whose clock is able to work at >> 192KHz will be more precise than a soundcard whose clock is sticked >> to 48KHz, so there's a reason to buy a 192KHz soundcard... and work >> at 48KHz. :) > >Ah, kind of like buying a big fat stereo even though you live in an >apartment building :) so you can get the precision listening at 10% > volume. > >> I don't see any reason to work at 192KHz. Apart from huge files, >> Nyquist is on my side. > >Err, NyQuil? Oh Nyquist ;) Took a little google to get that one about >the frequencies we are consiously aware of. Hm, I audiophiles probably >don't qualify as 'practical purposes' but I do here a whole lot of >bickering by them about the dynamics of CDs. I wonder if it is possile >for a well-trained sense of hearing to 'sense' frequencies beyond > human nyquist and get a psychoacoustic sensation from them anyway. > >Thanks a lot for sharing, Ismael! > It doesn't take well trained ears, Carlo. I'm 71, with "Carhart Notches" over 100 db deep in my hearing, mostly from wearing out 3 rifle barrels at the target range before I discovered ear-muffs. But, I can feel uncomfortable, even pain yet, instantly, from the effects of the old acoustic doppler motion detector type burglar alarms that run at about 44 kilohertz when I enter a building equipt with such alarms. I don't make it a habit to stick around and discuss the weather with the occupants when I encounter them things. >Carlo -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
