DCtoDaylight;350839 Wrote: > And if no one can hear distortion levels of less than 0.1%, why does > gear go down to 0.001%? In a word, marketing! > I think that what Pat is saying, is that many highly respected, great > sounding mic's are actually quite limited by audiophile standards, and > that the ability to reproduce ultra high frequency harmonics is not, by > itself, a good indicator of sound quality. > The extra headroom a higher sampling rate brings is more useful for > simplifying the anti aliasing filters, than it is for reproducing those > high frequencies.I get your point and Pat's one. But I strongly disagree > about your distortion level example : If a lot of people can hear differences between -say- different speaker cables or even between microphones, although CCIV/ITU-R ABX tests prove that no-one hears any differences of that level anyway, then, probably, the famous ABX tests methodology is broken and/or there's a factor that we forgot to consider. Also, I happen to know some amplifier designers, and I can tell you that when they go as far as 100kHz and 0,001% and 0dB frequency responce deviation (although the... tests say that no-one hears differences of 0,1dB), it is not for marketing purposes. It is because the sound of their product is better with than without. Go figure.
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