24 Dec
2012
24 Dec
'12
4:13 p.m.
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.