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- From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Subject: Re: sampling and human hearing range (was Re: (none))
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.030459.8914@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 03:04:59 GMT
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- egates@triton.unm.edu (EL GATES) writes:
- :
- : BTW, the reason that CDs only sample at 44.1 kHz is that when they
- : first came out that was about the best they could do and then couldn't
- : up the sampling rate since so many people had already bought CD players
- : for the 44.1kHz sampling rate. It also turns out (I believe) that a
- : sampling rate higher than 48 kHz doesn't really get you anything as far
- : as better quality reproduction, (again see Nyquist Theorem) and does
- : get more expensive to make good AD converters.
- :
-
- I thought that they reduced the sampling rate from 48KHz to 44.1 KHz
- so that the 9th symphony would fit on a single disk. Can't let that
- legend die, can we?
-
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