[sdiy] Taking a Step towards Digital Synthesis?....

[Glen]

At 01:07 PM 1/7/04 , Jay Schwichtenberg wrote:

>In my opinion 24 bit 48 kHz either raw PCM or with loss
>less compression would be the ultimate.

I wonder why everyone is so focused on bit depth, instead of the sample
rate? Almost everyone I have spoken to would rather have 24 bits at 44.1
kHz than 16 bits at 96 kHz. I don't understand this one bit.  ;)


>The reality is that most of the 24 bit/96 kHz stuff is marketing garbage.
>The limit of converters making real audio is about 20-21 bits.

Once again, your focus seems to be on bit depth. Apparently you don't feel
the much higher sample rate brings anything useful to the 24/96 format?

I believe that the 44.1 kHz sample rate is more of a problem than the
16-bit depth. I can hear a certain grittiness in the overtones of a 44.1 or
48 kHz recording that are much reduced (or gone) in a 96 kHz recording. I
haven't had the pleasure of hearing any higher sample rates, so I can't say
if there is anything to gain by raising the sample rate even higher.


later,
Glen Berry