>> That I think is a personal call Ralf, primarily because at 48 Khz, your >> anti-aliasing filters had better be very very good brick walls by the time >> you get above 24Khz in input content > > Can anyone point out a commercially available microphone used in the > audio recording domain which will actually pic frequencies above 20 kHz? > > Likewise can anyone point out any commercially available speaker used in > the audio reproduction domain which will actually reproduce frequencies > above 20 kHz? my roughly 20 years old genelec s30 are specified to go to >25khz, mundorf amt tweeters go up to 41khz, adam s4x-h are specified do go up to 50khz. the mundorf amt's can be used for PA speakers, a college of mine once used them to build a line array > If the audio produced is made for fruition of humans it makes absolutely > no sense to try and capture or reproduce anything above 20kHz, and for > average individuals 15kHz would probably more than enough. but of course you need to distinguish between distribution and production, were you can benefit from frequency headroom. > And in case anyone is tempted to state that even if we don't hear them > frequencies above 20kHz influence the way we hear or 'perceive' music, > please also attach any _scientific_ study/paper/evidence (e.g. > large-scale blind tests etc. not anecdotal evidence) to such statement. > > Lorenzo. > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
