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:> The Nyquist criterion states that any sample rate of more than twice
:> the highest frequency is all thats needed for accurate reproduction,
:> and I refuse to believe that there are that many engineers who can
:> hear over 20 kHz. I sure can't now and I never could.


Isn't there some research to suggest that there is a psycho-acoustic effect
caused by the "outside" frequencies that ends up affecting the audible
portion of the material as the different frequencies interact with each
other?

I'll have to go look this up. Don't remember exactly...

I must NOT be a "golden ears" type myself. I used to have a client that
specialized in pipe organ recordings, and he'd bring his own digital (?)
cables (2 feet long - he paid close to $500 for them. I don't know what the
hell they were!) to make the digital transfers from his DAT master, into my
workstation for editing and back out to his souped-up DAT machine again. I'd
have to tear half the studio apart to get it wired ∗just∗ the way he wanted.
He SWORE he could tell the difference....

When I used my cables (not exactly Radio Shack phono cords.....), I got
comments like:

"There's not enough 'air' now"
"The soundstage has collapsed somewhat"

blah, blah.... but...he always ∗knew∗ which cables were being used at the
time.

Only way I could keep him coming back for more editing was to go "Yea, I
think you're right....", otherwise, I wasn't worthy of editing his stuff in
the first place.

I lost him when I decided to try a blind "cable test" and he got it wrong.
Swore I was lying to him about which was which and never came back. Oh
well.....

Sheesh...