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You don’t need more than 44,100 kHz thanks to the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist–Shannon_sampling_theorem https://en

• rightbyte 3y ago
  If you got an ideal filter maybe. Having margin to half the sampling frequency helps filter design. Then again, the frequency response of the loud speaker is not flat so I dunno if the sampling filter cutoff frequency matters.
  • bandrami 3y ago
    The real rabbit hole is when you start looking into the frequency response of your eardrums
    • rightbyte 3y ago
      Sure but I guess the goal is for the replayed sound to sound the same as the original would. According to Wiki the absolute max an amazing(?) ear can hear is 28kHz. You can maybe hear aliasing of higher frequencies too? I can't hear any difference between 44.1kHz and faster sampling, but we can't refute it on purely theoretical ground.
      • bandrami 3y ago
        That's not what I'm getting at. For most purposes the 22KHz limit is a hard one. What I mean is that the eardrums do not have a linear response at any frequency.
  • ilyt 3y ago
    Yeah but you can keep source material at 44.1k and oversample before the DAC. And 24 bit is nice purely because you can regulate volume in software without losing fidelity (if DAC is good enough). But again, no such requirement on source, just the processing pipeline