"Dave Plowman" wrote in message
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In article ,
Clive Backham wrote:
What's left for debate is whether the sampling frequency used for CD
is already at or beyond the limits of human hearing

It is - when digital was in its infancy I and many of my colleagues had an
opportunity to play with different sampling rates on a wide variety of
material. And the point where any difference is detectable is below that
of CD - *that's* why it was chosen - although the exact rate was down to
TV video parameters so video recorders could be used.

Wasn't there another reason for choosing this particular sampling rate - it
allowed storage of approx 1 hour of music on the CD technology available at
the time?

Mike F