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You're confusing frequency and resolution. Just because a set of music fits in a certain frequency range doesn't mean that all representations of it are equal.
by Arainach 6y ago
You're confusing frequency and resolution. Just because a set of music fits in a certain frequency range doesn't mean that all representations of it are equal. For example, consider this in graphical form:
https://i.imgur.com/ZgU1bgI.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ZgU1bgI.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/RZpbyyI.jpg https://i.imgur.com/RZpbyyI.jpg
Both have the same 24-bit color space. Both have the same blackest black and whitest white. Both have the same resolution. And yet one preserves more detail and information. This is the nature of lossy compression.
- moftz 6y agoThe sampling rate and frequency range are tied together though. The Nyquist rate says the sampling rate must be 2x the bandwidth. If you sample at 96KHz, the most bandwidth you'd get is sound waves up to 48KHz and still be able to accurately reproduce them. However, if human hearing taps out at 28KHz, then you could sample up to 56KHz and still reliably reproduce the same sound.
- gwbas1c 6y agoAt that point, the only real advantage to 96khz is that it pushes any potential distortion out of the audible range. But going above 96khz or DSD is silly outside of the recording studio.