I can't agree with this. The most popular high quality music distribution format is still the audio CD, and most sample libraries etc are still at 44.1, so it makes sense to work at 44.1 and avoid having to src everthing. On consumer hardware the slightly extended top end makes little difference too. I can understand why compatability with cheap fixed 48k rate soundcards is useful, but I don't see that as a reason to make everything default to that rate. The only place I see 48k used is for people working with video. By the way, does anyone know how I can get my email replies to go to to the correct place in a thread in the archives? They always appear as a new post, rather than after the message I am replying to. I get the digest version and just copy and paste the subject line, there must be something I'm missing.