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Re: Sampling rate conversion

Subject: Re: Sampling rate conversion
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:50:58 -0800
Hakon Soreide, you wrote,

>On the same subject, I also noticed a website that stated that human
>hearing is actually able to pick up on differences in sound of 1
>microsecond, meaning that a bitrate higher than 1000KHz does not add
>any discernible quality to recorded sound... But making equipment
>for recording, processing and listening to such high bitrates sounds
>like it might be a ridiculously expensive venture, and for
>differences that I guess most people cannot really hear.

There are a lot of misconceptions about digital audio, and some of 
them come from sources that appear to be authoritative.

-Dan Dugan


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