Re: What's the use of a 192 kHz sample rate?

Jerry Avins wrote:

> I recently had my hearing tested, both through the ear canals and via 
> bone conduction. The results match to within a few dB, indicating that 
> my loss of cochlear or nerve, rather than associated with eardrum or 
> ossicles. I don't think the alternate paths account for much in general.

Uhm, but the alternate paths, usually, are no so
specific as per hearing test.

There are several issues here.
One is to distinguish, and it is not easy, between
what we can hear and what "sounds good".
The two things may not be equivalent.

There is a difference between:

1) Attending live a Wagner's concert, in which, for the
record, the orchestra needs some added instruments.
2) Listening the same concert in front of loudspeakers,
which can "only" reproduce up to 20KHz.
3) Having some headphones beaming a pure tone directly
into the head, with someone asking to press a button when
something is heard.

The first is like bathing in a ocean of sound.
The second is like swimming in a pool of sound.
The third is like measuring the water's temperature.

And we, here, are discussing how warm or cold humans
can feel the water.
The problem is how nice or not is the water...

bye,

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piergiorgio