Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: 192kHz

From: Florin Andrei <florin@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Jan 27 2006 - 19:48:00 EET

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 06:28 +0000, cdr wrote:

> the emerging hi-def standard for non legacy-media platforms is Intel HD Audio (the successor to AC'97) and its format is: up to eight channels at 192 kHz/32-bit quality

Wow, 32bit is way overkill for storage.
I can see why sound processing apps would use 32bit internally for
processing, but for storage... I dunno. Maybe I'm too conservative.

Well, it's only a 33% increase in storage demands over 24bit, and 32
might be more convenient for computers.

-- 
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
Received on Fri Jan 27 20:15:22 2006

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