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3. Re: High Sample Rates

Subject: 3. Re: High Sample Rates
From: "Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999
Date: Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:22 am ((PDT))
> How does metadata being important suggest that high sample rates are
> not? Maybe they are both important.

Good point.

> These listening tests that we refer to are about marketing music
> only, and they only show we think we can hear no difference. There
> are many things that we cannot consciously describe that do indeed
> affect mind and body.

Sure, but in the case of hearing there is only one study that claims
to show ultrasonic bandwidth affects humans, and that study is
questionable.

> And then there is species and ecosystem documentation - what about
> all that communication above 20k?

That is a valid point--insects and bats are up there.

-Dan Dugan






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