[LAU] Pro Audio? OT rant.

[Fons Adriaensen]

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,

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