David Fontaine wrote:

> > That's not why CDs are said to suck.  The impossibly gifted people who
> > claim vinyl sounds better are claiming that the linear scale used to
> > digitize the music is a poor match for the logarithmic scale our ears
> > actually hear on.  This has nothing to do with roundoff error.
>
> Aside from that, any mathematician will tell you the sample rate is
> insufficient. The highest frequency a person can hear is around 20kHz. The
> sample rate of a CD is 44kHz. It should be at least double that, 5x the
> highest frequency. Think about it, you could be sampling near the zero
> point every time.

That is of course not to imply that I agree linear scales lead to roundoff
error. I'd be somewhat hard to convince 65536 volume intervals is
insufficient. :)

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