[plug] slowdown probs

[Christian]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:25:44PM +0800, Beau Kuiper wrote:
> >  unfortunatly cd audio is just as bad. a 44khz sample rate ( normal cd ) will
> > not correctly resolve a 9khz square wave , while a good turntable, cartridge
> > , stylus , and amp will. also so will tape with a decent write spead. ( reel
> > to reel type)
> > rgds
> > alan howard
> Yes alan, I spend my days listening to 9khz square wave sound :-)
> 
> Of course alan, you forgot to take into account:
> 
> 1) good turntable and tape equipment costs a bundle while cd equipment is
> far cheaper. ie you have to spend more to get reasonable sound out of a LP
> than a CD.
> 2) cds are cheap, easy to copy, quite compact (compared to LP's and reel
> tapes) and argueably more durable.
> 3) Cd's arn't affected by magnetic fields like tapes are
> 4) Most music doesn't stress out the capibilities of 44khz sample rate.
> the square wave at 9khz is a pedantic example designed to expose a
> weakness in CD's that really don't affect real music much.

Since we've already gone way off topic...

What's your view of DVD-Audio with 192 kHz sample rate?

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