Recently, Scott Rossi wrote: 11k is pretty low; anything under that is usually reserved for voice-only situations since voice audio is usually more forgiving than music. 11k is workable for short sound effects, but 22k is better and pretty common for music. If, as you say, you don't have any filesize restrictions, you might want to consider 44k which is closer to CD quality.
44.1/16 bit < is > CD quality. The sampling rate is just above the lowest allowable Nyquist frequency to allow response to 20khz (two samples per).The downsides of such a low point were not understood for years and the low rate was why many thought analog sounded better; it was true. It always made me cringe when devices were promoted as being 'Digital' = 'better' when in fact the signal was often degraded. It took years for the mastering industry to make tolerable CDs.
Today 96k sampling is the rate most used for source masters, where it has much more resolution, then down-sampled and SRC'd to 44.1. The CD standard was set to the limits of the technology at the time; the CD specs were frozen in 1978.
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