Well I'll be happy with 24/96 forever. My other favorite brand Meridian is not using 192khz because it's piontless, they downsample DVD-A with 192khz in the DVD player before sending it via a custom digital link to the pre/pro (which has a special 6ch 24/96 input for mostly Meridian DVD-A players).
They think that. 24/96 per ch was enough, I saw some white paper ( a short variant of some aes report) claiming that the real limit for human hearing is about >20 bit >56khz sample rate or in that vicinity, so giving some slush margin for human error in both production and playback 24/96 per audio channel should be all that us human beings would ever need. But where the limit actually is probably not so easy to determine and opinions may vary even among "real" EE's and psychoacoustics researchers(even if discarding the voodoo opinions ). consequently they gear all their processors and digital speakers for 96kHz. 192khz would make things very expensive especially if want to run room correction algorithms and filters and other DSP chores at that rate. And as having >100 DVD-A's the real deal is multichannel hi-rez. Some stereo hi-rez sounds good but multi-channel hi-rez would knock your socks off :) Btw i think that most modern production software runs in 64 or 32 bit floating point thus being practically transparent even if you output 24/96 . I assume recording is done in 192khz or 96khz to avoid brick wall filtering at the AD stage. The again what do they do with all this wonderful equipment that is better and cheaper than ever ? wage loudness war as usual. -- Mnyb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62848 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
