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If 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
by hn8305823 3y ago
If 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.