Re: [LAU] Rolling off high frequencies when mastering?

On Wednesday 21 April 2010 11:26:24 Roberto wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:28:06AM +0200, fons@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 06:34:38PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> > > and is there some reason I should do it in this
> > > day and age?
> >
> > No. Unless you know the signal will end up in a very
> > very very crappy DA converter, and you want to give
> > that one preferential treatment at the expense of all
> > others.
>
> Hello Fons. Almost all consumer portable devices seem to distort signals
> above 16Khz in uncompressed 44100Hz audio. I always wondered about this,
> maybe they all have very crappy DA converters,

Or maybe its because many low-end sound-devices nowadays work with 48kHz fixed
and re-sample everything else in hardware or in software. And then it depends
on the sampling-algorithm, where I would not be surprised if these are not up-
to-par with Fons'.

Arnold

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