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whisky-dave wrote:
I think that 44.1 was chosen to be sufficiently good that only dogs and bats
would notice the limitations.

I doubt that I thought it was do do with what ADCs could do at the time.
PCs were 44.1KHz macs were 48KHz internally.

The CD red book format was based around what a semi-pro video recorder
used for PCM audio could do in those days. Basically, an NTSC U-Matic.
Hence the odd playing length originally.


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