Re: [linux-audio-user] 192kHz

From: Cesare Marilungo <cesare@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Jan 26 2006 - 15:35:39 EET

Joe Hartley wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:28:08 +0100
>Carlo Capocasa <capocasa@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
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>>My question, how useful is 192kHz for practical purposes? How quickly is
>>that likely to change? I'd really appreciate some advice here, thank you.
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>I've got a card that does 24/96 (a Delta 1010). In a side by side test,
>I _think_ my old ears hear the slightest of differences between recordings
>done at 24/96 and those done at 16/44, but in the end, I decided to save
>the disk space and always record at 16/44, since everything I do is going to
>get resampled to that anyway for CDs.
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About the bit depth, I always use 24bit. In this way if the sound level
of a recorded track is not high enough I have more dynamic range to use
when I mixdown in 16bit.

c.

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