[linux-audio-user] Re: producing a drum sample library for hydrogen

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 21:24, LinuxMedia wrote:
> > Meh, I can't tell the difference.  I've yet to hear a compelling
> > argument for preferring anything more than 16bit/44.1k.  Personal
> > opinions abound, but the plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
> 
> I swear I can hear the difference between 16bit/44.1k and 16bit/48k. 
> When I decided to use the extra 3.9K that my card allows, I did a "side 
> by side test" of a 44.1K and 48K. The difference is quality is enough 
> for me to record at a standard 48K rate.
> 

Well, 48khz has been the standard in professional digital audio since
day one, for a reason I would think.  44.1 is an oddball, a quirk of the
CD format.

Probably they couldn't quite figure out how to get enough music on a CD
at 48khz, so they stupidly forced people to downsample to 44.1 rather
than wait a year or two until the capacity got better.  Or they didn't 
want people having exact digital copies of the master DATs.

Lee