23 Dec
2012
23 Dec
'12
12:33 p.m.
On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 20:53 -0500, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
Now you spread misinformation ;). Is there any scientific source for
that claim?
My impression is (might be scientifically right or wrong, it's my
experience) that
- < 48 KHz sound can be ok for some sources, but it
also can become very bad
- > 48 KHz you don't hear an improvement, IOW 48 KHz is
all that's needed
- There is some gear that does sound better at > 48 KHz,
but if you compare that gear with other gear at 48 KHz
it doesn't sound better
I don't have experiences with conversion from 48 KHz to 44.1 KHz, when I
did it (doing something a few times doesn't lead to experience), the
sound becomes less good, that's the nature of 44.1 KHz. I don't know any
scientific reason that a conversion should cause issues, but producing
at 44.1 KHz does cause issues, since the sound is less good, mixing is
harder to do.
I was asked how the sound quality is, when I use 192 KHz with the RME
card, but I can't answer this question, because I don't record at 192
Khz.
I guess the bit depth is important, especially for production, perhaps
less important for listening to the finished recoding.
YMMV!
Regards,
Ralf
ADAT can do 48KHz, 96KHz and 192KHz.
Nobody will use
44.1KHz
for
pro-audio, so that wouldn't cause an issue.
the usual ralph misinformation. does it ever stop?
ADAT supports 44.1kHz and 48kHz as-is. With the S-Mux
"standard", it
can route 88.2kHz and 96kHz signals, but each
channel is
split across
two ADAT channels, causing a 50% reduction in the
number of
available
channels.
Can you give an example for misinformation by me?
Along with Paul pointing out that ADAT CAN do 44.1, saying that 44.1
recording will never be used for Pro-Audio is also misinformation. If
you are going to CD only, it removes the need to do a sample rate
conversion, which obviously means less noise, and while there may
certainly be some differences in audio quality, some people believe
the difference from said conversion is greater than the difference in
audio quality form 44.1 vs 96, etc.