On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:13:01AM -0500, Ricardus Vincente wrote: > 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. And those of today, that hasn't changed. 44100 was chosen for a mix of reasons, the wikipedia article referred to earlier explains all of them very well. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
