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Wouldn't 48k be better quality than 44.1? Why not use 48k?
by brokenmachine 3y ago
Wouldn't 48k be better quality than 44.1? Why not use 48k?
- hn8305823 3y agoIf the end user is going to play it at 48k (trivial today) then it is absolutely better. Back in the 1990's independent/aspiring musicians needed to make CD's to send out to labels/radio stations/sell to fans. CD Audio is fixed at 44.1KHz. Transcoding 48k to 44.1 generates undesirable artifacts, especially back then when you likely had to convert to analog first.
- brokenmachine 3y agoMakes sense, I can definitely see why you'd want to skip a DAC/ADC step. For some reason I was thinking about it like nowadays when you just do the samplerate conversion ITB with hardly any degradation.