[Vorbis] Sample rates higher than 48k? 24-bit depth?

Robert Woodcock rcw at debian.org
Mon Jan 10 06:40:57 PST 2005


On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:14:22PM +0100, Stefan Weilhartner wrote:
> Well nearly everyone thinks that the shannon theorem is perfectly adequate
> for using with audio signals.

s/Shannon/Nyquist/i?

> So they think that 44,1kHz Sampling frequency is enough for everything.
> But i think it is not cause we have a stereo signal here and stereo means
> that the timing (diffenence between left and right signal) is very
> important.Our brain calculates 3D-Room-information out of the difference
> between the two signals. I'll explain that more detailed and scientific
> later that day, so everyone can understand this.

You're probably also one of those people that triple-checks that they have
positive and negative hooked up the same way on each of their speakers.

Personally I can't tell the difference.
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