Jeff07971 wrote: > Its not really the same conversation really, I do not say that the way > the 0's and 1's are "shipped" makes any difference. > > I am however saying maybe higher sample rates and possibly bit depth > would be more sensible despite what the average person may hear. >
Oh, that straw man again. As I and others have pointed out, the human ear is mechanically limited at both ends of the spectrum by its design and construction. We know what the best ears can do, and the xisting CD standard is more than sufficient. > > The commonly held belief (and entirely reasonable) is that we can only > "hear" up to 17 (or so) Khz the 22 Khz (or so) limit is only about 1/4 > octave or 25% "safety" factor against the average. > Pretty close. > > I wouldn't want to use a safety rope with 125% breaking strain on the > average mass of a human or in a plane where wing strength was 125% of > actual load would you ? I'm trained and practiced as a mechanical engineer as well as electrical, and trust me, the meaning of safetly margins are very different in the two different contexts. In the audio domain there is no appreciable degradation that we have to keep in mind when we set safety factors. There is no possibility of unintentional overload. Perchance we get a little close to the margins, nobody gets hurt or dies. In mechanical systems: (1) Overload has to be considered, because its almost always going to happen, period. (2) The structure physically degrades in use or non-use. IOW we make mechanical systems like 10 times or stronger than the average design load because its gonna rust or decay or lose its heat treating or fatigue, whatever. There are no corresponding effect with audio bandwidth. Modern digital audio gear typically does not change its performance one iota until it breaks and then the failure is total. Much analog gear is the same. For example, the treble in your old analog power amp measures and sounds the same as it did decades ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106621 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
