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I give them a "big fat 0" too. But that's because I use a high quality professional ADC/DAC. Cheaper DACs are likely to have much better sounding reconstruction filters at higher sample freq, as it's difficult and expensive to create good quality steep filters which are required for 44.1k sample freq. Using higher sample freq allows the implementation of much smoother, easier and cheaper to implement filters. This is true for both ADCs and DACs. Some genres, classical music is an example, tend to use much higher recording standards and much better quality equipment, it's unlikely that mediocre ADCs have been used for recording. So, depending on what genre of music you listen to and the quality of your DAC, you may (or may not) hear higher quality at the higher sample freqs.
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Originally Posted by milkweg /img/forum/go_quote.gif That's not something I have ever noticed and I give higher sampling rates than 44.1khz for music a big fat 0. |
I give them a "big fat 0" too. But that's because I use a high quality professional ADC/DAC. Cheaper DACs are likely to have much better sounding reconstruction filters at higher sample freq, as it's difficult and expensive to create good quality steep filters which are required for 44.1k sample freq. Using higher sample freq allows the implementation of much smoother, easier and cheaper to implement filters. This is true for both ADCs and DACs. Some genres, classical music is an example, tend to use much higher recording standards and much better quality equipment, it's unlikely that mediocre ADCs have been used for recording. So, depending on what genre of music you listen to and the quality of your DAC, you may (or may not) hear higher quality at the higher sample freqs.
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