Originally Posted by Thrush
I thought CD quality was 128k? 128k to the human ear anyway is the same as CD quality, as anything above 128k cannot be detecded and percieved as "better" than the same thing recorded at 128k..... So if you record the same track twice - once @ 176k and then again @ 128k then listen to both then listen to the shop bought CD version the human ear cannot tell the difference.
Thats utter bollocks!
Record a tune at 128k and play it in a car with a sub, then play it at 192k on the same system and suddenly the bass will appear
The reason being, when you encode a tune with a low encription it removes the frequencies that are least likely to be heard (ie the highest and lowest) so play a 128k tune on a good sound system with proper subs (or say for example in a dicso) and the bass will not be half as good.
Yes you can still hear the bass, but at 128 all the frequencies that give the proper sub bass will not be there