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
Sent from my iPhone > 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: >> >> Sent from my iPhone
