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@typhlosion oh you meant things like just using a VHS tape to store digital audio, i missed that
dunno why the CD would have kept that though--either DCC or DAT or both, don't remember, used 48 kHz, and I think SACD might have also been 48 kHz?
...why do we talk about it as kHz instead of ksps anyway
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@typhlosion that's fair!
it's still a bit of an odd number but it makes a bit more sense now
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@typhlosion and i don't think there's any real significant advantage of 48 kHz over 44.1, you only really need a little bit more than 40
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@Felthry when the CD spec was being developed, the most affordable way to get recorded digital audio from the recording studio to the manufacturer was via PCM adaptors putting the data onto and getting it off of tapes, which is where the 44.1kHz number came from in the first place. so the spec was written with that in mind
the DAT format that introduced the 48kHz standard was introduced later on, and by then CDs and the CD-Audio standard had already asserted themselves among consumer electronics