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John Williamson wrote:

*Samples* per second, not bits per second. 44k *bits* per second is low
fidelity mp3 or any other lossy compression well down into distorted
telephone quality speech territory. 44k *samples* per second at 16 bits
per sample is CD quality.


But that's just one channel. For stereo you have:

44.1k x 16 bits per sample * 2 channels

= 1411200 bits per second... ie about 1.34 Mbps


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