19 Jun
2004
19 Jun
'04
4:22 a.m.
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 21:24, LinuxMedia wrote:
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
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.