bigshot
Headphoneus Supremus
What humans can hear *is* band limited. Most of us at the best hear 20Hz to 20kHz. Yes, we can feel tactile vibrations below 20Hz, and a few people who are very young can hear up to about 23kHz. But beyond that, it isn't even crickets... it is complete silence. We flat out can't perceive super audible frequencies any more than we can hear radio waves, and they make absolutely no impact at all on the sound we can hear.
Sound is made up of frequency, amplitude and time. Those three things are plotted out as a waveform. 16/44.1 PERFECTLY reproduces the waveform for all sound that is audible to humans. That means that the frequency, amplitude and time are perfectly reproduced, just as the waveform is perfectly reproduced. With CD quality digital audio there is no audible noise or distortion. To human ears it is a 1:1 perfect copy of the signal. P E R F E C T to human ears.
Are you really reading somewhere that it isn't a good idea to employ the Nyquist theory in high fidelity audio, or are you just speculating yourself? Because if you can link me to a site where you are getting your misinformation, I would be very interested in reading it. If you're just making this stuff up as you go along, then I refer you back to my advice about lurking more, listening and developing an attitude conducive to learning.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge. -Stephen Hawking
Sound is made up of frequency, amplitude and time. Those three things are plotted out as a waveform. 16/44.1 PERFECTLY reproduces the waveform for all sound that is audible to humans. That means that the frequency, amplitude and time are perfectly reproduced, just as the waveform is perfectly reproduced. With CD quality digital audio there is no audible noise or distortion. To human ears it is a 1:1 perfect copy of the signal. P E R F E C T to human ears.
Are you really reading somewhere that it isn't a good idea to employ the Nyquist theory in high fidelity audio, or are you just speculating yourself? Because if you can link me to a site where you are getting your misinformation, I would be very interested in reading it. If you're just making this stuff up as you go along, then I refer you back to my advice about lurking more, listening and developing an attitude conducive to learning.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge. -Stephen Hawking
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