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- From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
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- Subject: Re: sampling and human hearing range (was Re: (none))
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- Date: 14 Sep 92 05:34:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep14.030459.8914@rosevax.rosemount.com> grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
- >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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- Seems like almost the same thing either way - they could have increased the
- sampling rate if they could have made the marks on the disk smaller; or they
- could have made the disks bigger; or they could have ... meaning I don't
- think you can answer the question without talking about how all the
- parameter values were selected.
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