<quotes repositioned nad trimmed by admin> On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Blair Fisher wrote: > Actually, the sampling rate is divided in half to get the frequency > response. So, 44.1 KHz sampling rate works out to 22.05 KHz frequency > response. > > That should be more than any human ear can hear at any rate, > especially mine, which have lost a bit off the top over the years. > > Audiophiles will tell you they need super tweeters that produce 40 > KHz, and some people will claim they hear the difference with really high > sampling rates there is a lot of hocus pocus around audio fidelity > issues....maybe > people are really hearing these things or maybe they aren¹t, I¹ll > admit I¹m a bit of a skeptic. > > BUT > > Microphone choice and placement, recording and mixing acoustics, > monitor speakers, mixing techniques, quality of instruments (real or sampled) > intonation, general good ears.....oh yeah, and good players and good > music! > > I think all of those things would make way more difference to your > projects than recording at 192k. Most people lose their hearing in the high mid treble frequencies... I have a notch there but can still hear those darn supersonic alarm systems or the carrier signal in cheap TV's, and I think few people lose the really super highs at the threshold of hearing... they just have very little to do with the intelligibility of human speech which sits a lot lower in the frequency range. With my experience at 192k it's more of a feel thing... on a good system that can reproduce it (and I heard one of the best here at a convention at Las Vegas) you really get a lot more of the "feeling" of the musicians actually being right there in the room. So you can "notice" whether it's there or not, but I wouldn't exactly call it "hearing" in the conventional sense. Supersonic "feeling" similar to subsonic feeling of extremely low bass frequencies. Also, if you believe there is a spiritual component to music and musical communication between musicians, I'd just bet it's in those supersonic frequencies. So if you're recording a lot of acoustic instruments, it makes a difference. In loops, samples, and synths, probably not as noticeable as few are designed to utilize the higher frequencies. Although in the Korg Triton you can hear the difference between 44.1k sounds and Korg's 48k... Leslie Bell