On 3/31/23 00:35, Tadd Torborg via TriEmbed wrote:
From the linked article
*"The majority of digital audio equipment operates at a sample rate of
44.1 kHz or precisely 215 Hz”*
This is a patently false statement even if you add in the missing caret.
Yeah, so as others have pointed out, the real answer to the silly
headline question is because it makes a 16-bit counter overflow at
exactly 1 Hz, which is super useful for driving digital timepieces, and
apparently happens to be a comfortable resonating frequency for a quartz
crystal.
There's no clever relationship between 2^16 and 44.1 kHz, though. 44.1k
is not a nice power of two. It comes, possibly, from NTSC TV scan
rates; see https://dsp.stackexchange.com/a/17702
I would question the use of the word "majority" in that sentence as
well. I'd claim the vast majority of digital audio equipment is capable
of handling a variety of sampling rates.
-B (who dabbles in the guts of digital audio)
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