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On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 08:29 -0500, Joe Hartley wrote:

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> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:28:08 +0100

> Carlo Capocasa  wrote:

>

> > My question, how useful is 192kHz for practical purposes? How quickly is

> > that likely to change? I'd really appreciate some advice here, thank you.

>

> I've got a card that does 24/96 (a Delta 1010).  In a side by side test,

> I _think_ my old ears hear the slightest of differences between recordings

> done at 24/96 and those done at 16/44, but in the end, I decided to save

> the disk space and always record at 16/44, since everything I do is going to

> get resampled to that anyway for CDs.

> 

    The biggest part of that difference is 16 vs 24.  I've recorded the

same source data in 24/44.1 and 24/96 and there is a slight noticeable

difference but, as you say, you've got to sample down to 16/44.1 anyway

so I usually just record 16/44.1.
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