Super-high Sampling Rates like 64 Khz, 88.2 Khz, 96 Khz, 192 Khz: WHY???

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Posted by ali92 on May-08-2002 00:35:

Super-high Sampling Rates like 64 Khz, 88.2 Khz, 96 Khz, 192 Khz: WHY???

I notice that Sampling rate are getting higher and higher on Pro and Consumer Audio/Video gear and I'd like to know why are they getting higher if everything above the 48 Khz Sampling Rate cannot be heard by the human listener? It's pretty pointless if you ask me! Can anyone on here hear frequencies above 24 Khz?

Posted by davinox on May-08-2002 02:19:

i can tell the difference between 44 and 48.

i didn't even know there was higher than 48! 192 is INSANE!!!

Posted by drizzt81 on May-08-2002 02:22:

well, if you want to do production work, you want to keep as high quality as possible, since you can apply filters in a more 'correct' way if you signal is more detailed..

make sense?

Posted by ali92 on May-08-2002 02:56:

quote:
Originally posted by davinox
i can tell the difference between 44 and 48.

i didn't even know there was higher than 48! 192 is INSANE!!!

I can too but, above 48 can't be heard by ANY human...

Posted by ali92 on May-08-2002 02:58:

quote:
Originally posted by drizzt81
well, if you want to do production work, you want to keep as high quality as possible, since you can apply filters in a more 'correct' way if you signal is more detailed..

make sense?

How can you tell how detailed it is if you can't hear it? What kind of filters are you speaking about?