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

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 at 11:27 -0800, Mike Taht wrote:
> 1) Surround sound: If you have 5:1 surround sound, somehow that gets
> encoded into the same sample rate as 2 channel sound, and there must
> be some corresponding quality loss overall. So it strikes me that if
> you want higher fidelity surround, the end output needs to have more
> bits than nyquist dictates.

I'm sorry, I don't understand this. Can you elaborate? If you have 5:1,
that means you have six channels, right? How does that relate to sample
rate?

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