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anticensor
on Feb 8, 2025
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The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency (1997)
Why couldn't they make use of a sampling rate with five samples per frame (which would exactly give 88.2kHz by the way)?
wappieslurkz
on Feb 8, 2025
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Because doubling the sample rate would half the playing time of a CD, or require twice the density, while not bringing any audible increase in quality for the human ear.
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