[time-nuts] Oh dear
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon May 7 18:57:13 UTC 2012
In message <CABbxVHuASDQ-mwug6fMwc4Ln-D3ZKhegvpVvbPCprWXeWGfX0A at mail.gmail.com>
, Chris Albertson writes:
>You are mixing recording and distribution. The 16-bit 44.1K "CD
>Quality" is for distribution to consumers.
I'm old enough to have listend to comparisons when 16 bit 44.1KHz
was _both_ recoding and distribution format :-)
As I said: one of the main drivers for oversampling is to relax
requirements for analog and clock precision.
>What you get
>is something that was modified to sound good on consumer playback
>equipment. With "good" being the engineer's person opinion.
Or in the case of an entire generation worth of european classical
recordings: "good" being equal to "Karajan can hear it through
his increasingly severe deafness" :-)
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