On 12/24/2012 03:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 44.1 was a compromise to get enough minutes on a CD, later when consumer > DAT was introduced it wasn't needed to take care about the length, so > they came with 48 KHz. I was always told that 44.1 was chosen because they wanted to be able to reproduce signals up to 20K, but the other 2.05K of audio was needed for the low-pass filters of the day. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
