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  3. Path: sparky!uunet!telebit!eric
  4. From: eric@telebit.com (Eric Smith)
  5. Subject: Re: Life after CDs
  6. In-Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu's message of Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:19:24 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <ERIC.92Jul23182226@napa.telebit.com>
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  14. Date: 23 Jul 92 18:22:26
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  16.  
  17. >>On Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:19:24 GMT, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) said:
  18. > The part I heard was that this requirement wasn't going to work at the
  19. > designated sample rate of 48 KHz, so they cut it back to 44.1 to squeeze it
  20. > in.
  21.  
  22. I seriously doubt that, since PCM recording equipment already existed that
  23. used 44.056 KHz sampling, whereas I don't think anything in mass production
  24. used 48.0 KHz sampling at that time.
  25.  
  26. Cheers,
  27. Eric
  28.