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Old 01-20-2015, 06:06 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by plush2 View Post
Because we can, marketing, to stay in step with new formats (blue ray deliveries are higher sampling rate). The move to higher sampling rates was more of a 'what if...?" proposition than a scientifically provable problem in need of a solution.

As a result of all that development we now have much better and much cheaper DAC/ADC designs on the market. When the marketing hype is on getting 192 or 384 kHz to market the companies don't care so much about giving away the farm on those lower sample rates. Don't look at it as your soundcard having useless high sample rate features, look at it as your inexpensive soundcard having a really effective regular sample rate performance.
I can understand r&d leading to better converters at lower sample rates, but why provide higher sample rates on end user devices? Why do video formats such as blue ray provide higher sample rates?

Outside of the discussion of sound quality for normal playback, higher sample rates are good for anything involving lower speed playback, such as studying recordings at half-speed.
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