In message <cabbxvhuasdq-mwug6fmwc4ln-d3zkhegvpvvbpcprwxewgf...@mail.gmail.com> , Chris Albertson writes:
>You are mixing recording and distribution. The 16-bit 44.1K "CD >Quality" is for distribution to consumers. I'm old enough to have listend to comparisons when 16 bit 44.1KHz was _both_ recoding and distribution format :-) As I said: one of the main drivers for oversampling is to relax requirements for analog and clock precision. >What you get >is something that was modified to sound good on consumer playback >equipment. With "good" being the engineer's person opinion. Or in the case of an entire generation worth of european classical recordings: "good" being equal to "Karajan can hear it through his increasingly severe deafness" :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
