26 Jan
2004
26 Jan
'04
5:43 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:19:59 +0100, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
imnsho, all this sampling rate hype is a clever
industry ploy to keep
people from thinking that their hardware is finally good enough and they
can stop buying now.
Probably true but...
people can't hear over 20k. period. 48k sampling
rate gives you 24k
minus what's cropped off by the aliasing filter. granted, higher
sampling allows you to use a simpler, less steep aliasing filter, and
some people claim to perceive an improvement from that. but even then,
96k should be enough.
This is not quite correct. While humans can not hear continuous tones over
20-odd kHz that is not the whole story, the frequency reproduction also
limits the minimum transient rise time, which is detected by a different
part of the ear (IIRC, IANABiologist and my psychoacoustics textbook is at
work).
I dont know wether I, personally can tell the difference between a 48 and
96 recording, but I'm not going to rule it out.
- Steve