Jeff07971 wrote: 
> After an "interesting" :) discussion here regarding bandwidth and sample
> depth/rates in digital audio I found this interesting :-
> 
> http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~boyk/spectra/spectra.htm

I'm not sure anybody claims that such instruments do not produce >20KHz
sound, like some produce heat, light reflexion, change the % humidity in
the air when you blow in them (I'm not being sarcastic) and maybe other
things. The point is that these elements are under perceptual level of
humans and/or irrelevant for replay. Or shall we reproduce all the
environment variables of a recording when it was made? A dog barking at
the other side of your town will make a noise of which some will reach
you when you listen ... but you'd probably agree there are neglegible.
Your hearing has a lowpass filter <20KHz, so even if the instrument has
a decent amount of energy >20KHz, as long as the digitization process
include as similar lowpass filter before sampling @ more than Nyquist,
then there is no aliasing and your human filter versus the digitization
filter have no more difference/impact than the barking dog.



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