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Blackthorntoday at 5:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

Indeed. And what is the max frequency that a human can hear?


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speak_ontoday at 9:09 PM

The artifacts produced by pure 44.1 kHz convertion are aliased back down to lower frequencies. It's not about a theoretical human ear, it's about the actual physics of AD/DA conversion.

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Rotundotoday at 5:26 PM

Depends on age of the listener, on average, 30 to 50 year olds hear a maximum frequency of 14 to 16 kHz.

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