No I’m asking if there’s any combination of hand-waving that would convince an 
audiophile that a 44.1k renderer is superior to a 48k one 

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> On Jul 4, 2023, at 1:09 PM, Ben Bradley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If you're asking where the 44.1k sample rate originated, it actually
> predates redbook CD, and appears related to the United States NTSC
> video standard. Some of the first commercially available digital audio
> recorders converted the digital signal to a video signal and recorded
> to video tape. Google brings up the Sony models PCM-F1 and PCM-701ES,
> but apparently there were earlier models from the late 1970s. I recall
> reading about it in a hifi magazine at the time. I'm tired of looking,
> but that should be enough to find details such as how many bytes were
> on each horizontal scan line and exactly how it relates to the sample
> rate.
> 
>> On Tue, 4 Jul 2023 at 12:49, Yisheng Jiang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
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