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The higher sampling rate

Has advantages. I put a link below that explains it better than I can.

In short the reason you have a higher sampling rate is to avoid missing relevant content that occurs between sampling windows. Musical content is anything but a predictable waveform and there is relevant information that can be missed when the sampling rate is a low as 44.1kHz.

If music was a sine wave then 44.1 KHz is capable of recording and playing back the sine wave content (up to approximately 20kHz). Unfortunately musical peaks happen wherever they happen and the regular sampling windows can miss information that cannot be reproduced.

The answer is to increase the sampling rate to try and capture all of the content and provide the DAC the data necessary to reconstruct the original musical waveform. Whether or not the music is reproduced faithfully is dependent on the musical content.

Sometimes CD resolution does a very good job of reproducing music. Where it starts to falter is when the musical waveform is complex. That can happen when there is lots of high frequency content and/or lots of out of phase information (like when its a live recording in a lively recording space).

There is also common sense involved. The idea is to record at the highest resolution you can and then you can master whatever you want from the high resolution master. When you have the 24/192 recording you can always make whatever lower resolution copy you want. If you start with a low resolution master you cannot recreate what you don't have.

Ed
Life is analog...digital is just samples thereof

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