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

In rec.audio.tech rickman <gnuarm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 3, 3:28 am, Randy Yates <ya...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > rickman <gnu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> > > If it really is a waste of time and money to use 192 kHz ADC and
DAC,
> > > why do you think they would do it?
> >
> > Greed. They think that the general public is dumb enough to buy into
> > the lie that they really need such a system and would then spend lots
of
> > money repurchasing what they already have.

> I'm curious, how do you know what unnamed people are thinking?  My
> understanding is that regardless of what frequencies acoustic testing
> says that people can hear, audiophiles can hear the difference between
> many of these "wasteful" features and otherwise adequate audio
> systems.

> I have known people who worked on professional equipment.  The
> extremes that they have design in are all audible to the buyers of
> such systems. 

And people will judge wine's quality on the basis of its price. 

> I am not going to try to tell someone else what they can and can't
> hear.


Do you need to be told  the conditions that might confuse you into
thinking
you heard a difference, when you didn't?




-- 
-S 
maybe they wanna rock.
maybe they need to rock.
Maybe it's for the money?  But That's none of our business..our business
as fans is to rock 
with them.