• This is a huge bone of contention between audiophiles as to whether it really makes a difference to the listening experience. HOwever, what you have stated is not really true. One, the microphones used to record the record will most probably have had a fequency response up to 20kHz and two, the speakers you are using to listen to the playback will have a very similar freq. response so no higher frequencies will have been recorded and even if they were your speakers probably wouldn't be able to reproduce them,

    yes, but the argument goes that the much higher inaudible frequencies produce harmonic interaction lower down the spectrum, and if truncated something sounds 'missing'.

    i don't particularly buy into that myself though.

    i've also heard Pro-tools HD advocates swear blind that bass sounds much richer and fuller at 192khz ( about 4.5 times the resolution of CD audio), but i don't really buy into that either.

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