There are 3 DIFFERENT things...   1) What is the SPEC?   2) What is the performance of a SPECIFIC DEVICE that ATTEMPTS to implement that spec?   3) What is the human ear capable of perceiving?     What I observed throughout this entire 900+ thread is that people keep mixing...

  oops, I was peacefully soaking the the tub and realized I had miscalculated the storage cost... that's what I get for doing it on the fly. so here is how it is done for anyone who is interested... and hasn't already figured it out.   1 terabyte = 1000 gigabytes for a cost of $100. So...

    There is and continues to be a lot of confusion on this thread about certain concepts, but I also do appreciate that there are also some people here with a huge depth of knowledge far in excess of my own.   Let me translate the above conversation...  see if this makes more sense...

in response to the endless debate about 192k samples, is it better?   I suppose that it is pointless to reply to a thread that is this old.  But someone on the internet is wrong!!  http://xkcd.com/386/   and so I just had to say something.  :-)   People have persistantly misunderstood...