Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Sample Rate / Resolution question
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 01 2002 - 16:01:15 EET
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:54:09 +0100, Pieter Palmers wrote:
> So why do we work with 96kHz? I don't know of any reason other than 'it
> seems to
> sound better'.
One valid reason is that it will make a lot of DSP processes sound better,
for example biquad filters tend to work best when the cutoff frequency is
small compared to the sample rate, so you will bet better sound with high
sample rates.
OTOH it takes a lot more CPU to do the computation.
- Steve
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