Great article on The Science Of Sample Rates that discusses the pro's and con's of high sample rates.
Its long but well worth the read.

Nice find... thanks Noel!
 
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Good Article Noel, thx for the link. Excellent info! I LOVE the bottom line at the end. :)

Isn't that the same article that credits Harold Nyquist for "providing the mathematical proof" for what was to become the "Nyquist Theorem"? I may sound like a nit-picker, but that's just wrong.
 
Claude Shannon was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and deserves credit for not only providing the proof that elevated Nyquist's concept to the status of "theorem" but also for proposing the idea of using binary numbers as the basis for electronic computing.
 
It's like saying Roger Waters was the genius behind Pink Floyd.

bitflipper
It's like saying Roger Waters was the genius behind Pink Floyd.

Hehehe, that caught me by surprise and now I've a coffee stain on me trousers. Thanks bitflipper ;)
 
Interesting article, cheers for the heads up. 

Thank you!

I guess the Cliff notes for that article would read something like "44.1 or 48k is just fine for most things".

ampfixer
I guess the Cliff notes for that article would read something like "44.1 or 48k is just fine for most things".

Thanks for summarizing. Now I don't have to read it.

bitflipper
Isn't that the same article that credits Harold Nyquist for "providing the mathematical proof" for what was to become the "Nyquist Theorem"? I may sound like a nit-picker, but that's just wrong.
 
Claude Shannon was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and deserves credit for not only providing the proof that elevated Nyquist's concept to the status of "theorem" but also for proposing the idea of using binary numbers as the basis for electronic computing.
 
It's like saying Roger Waters was the genius behind Pink Floyd.

Another place where his history is off, fact fans, is in his thinking that the videophone dates from the sixties. In fact, AT&T had a fully working system in 1927, but never went commercial with it. There was a commercial public videophone system in Germany immediately before the second world war though.

That stuff aside, this is a good article.

He didn't talk about capturing the recordings and the fact that most of the data about fidelity depends on using every available bit. If you are only using 6 of your 24 bits b/c you have your levels set dangerously low, then you might get a recording like an analog cassette tape at 44.1. Now I've loved my analog cassette tapes but... just saying.
 
I know you don't fix this by doubling the sample rate, btw. :-)