gswitz
Cactus Music
Why 96 hz when your using a el cheepo interface?? What benifit is this>
I actually think the benefit of a double rate on a cheap interface may be significant because it could give the sound of a better clock - resolve or improve jitter.
There maybe more audible difference on an inexpensive interface than on an expensive one.
There are a couple of reasons why higher sampling rates will not reliably improve quality. The first is based on good theory and has to do with how the sound is encoded digitally. See my horrible explanation earlier in this thread for an outline. The best argument against the inescapable math of the Nyquist-Shannon Theorem is that the presence of correctly encoded ultrasonic frequencies becomes audible when the sound waves interact with the ultrasonic waves that change the quality of the audible range either after they are reproduced in air producing interference summations (comb filtering), or within the analog realm in the system as intermodulation distortion. That such an ultrasonic presence in the audible range will always produce a better quality (or even a more accurate reproduction) of sound in every case is doubtful.
The second has to do with the way an interface (cheap or expensive) and signal chain has actually been constructed. An engineer, especially one working on a budget, would likely feel he should make his microphone, speaker, amplifier, or sampler work most reliably at frequencies within the audible range. One would expect that a cheaper unit would likely not use the higher cost components needed to maintain linearity and avoid distortion at ultrasonic frequencies. While in theory a perfectly encoded signal having had all the higher frequency components filtered out by a perfectly constructed antialiasing filter should be identical whether encoded at twice or four times the Nyquist frequency, it is highly unlikely that the same signal will be encoded identically even in the same audio interface at different sampling rates. Components that produce a linear result from 20-20,000 Hz with acceptable electronic noise and distortion may well not work as well at 40,000 Hz. It is not uncommon to hear people express the opinion that there is a sweet spot sampling rate that sounds best on their interface, and it is not always the highest available. If you can truly hear a better difference at a particular sampling rate, it makes sense to use that rate. If you are basing your decision on some misunderstanding of theory, then maybe not.
http://productionadvice.co.uk/high-sample-rates-make-your-music-sound-worse/