CommanderROR wrote: > I honestly think 24/48 should be the new standard, because it offers the > best quality/redundancy (24bit depth) without the risk of introducing > ultrasonic frequencies that are harmful to the audible quality of the > music.
24 bits makes sense when recording (to get headroom / safety margin), but once the material is recorded, it can definitely be normalized to something that easily fits into 16 bits. Have you ever come across an actual, released recording that used a range of more than 16 bits? 48 KHz made more sense in the days of bad, old analog low pass filters, these days technology is good enough that the 2 kHz (between 20 and 22 kHz) is more than enough for good filtering even with 44.1 kHz. But that is just my personal opinion, and flame wars have been waged in the audiophile section over much smaller matters... "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
