On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 01:20 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > Why would a consumer format EVER use 192KHz? Will people's hearing > improve according to Moore's law? Some people (sound/music professionals) do report an audible improvement of the sound quality when using 192. Even from an objective standpoint, wave forms of the high end of the audio spectrum are slightly different when using 192. It is conceivable that those differences can be perceived in some rare instances. Personally, I couldn't hear any difference between 96 and 192. Maybe my ears are not good enough (I'm 36, I can still hear the horizontal scan of a TV set if I'm sitting nearby), maybe my equipment is too low end (Delta 1010, Alesis M1 Active monitors, Mackie Big Knob controller, Sennheiser HD600 phones). I guess it will happen eventually and 192 will become the next standard. With storage and processing power becoming cheaper and bigger, I guess it will be more of a "because we can" type of thing. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
