48,000 Hz verses 96,000 Hz

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The question is at what level will you be able to tell the difference between 48,000 and 96,000 Hz? Can a casual listener tell the difference? How about a musician, or are we talking someone with years of studio experience who is listening for every subtle detail in the music? Does anyone have some posts that I can listen for myself?

You can hear more on a record then you can from a CD you know. There are just sounds missing. No analog verses digital flames please.
 
Yes, no, maybe...

Yes, there is a difference in audio quality between 24/48 kHz and 24/96kHz. The difference is negligible though, definitely not worth the increased file size. Don't get caught up in the hype, 24/48 sounds excellent.

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ummm.. you might even want to use 24/44... i recorded about 20 minutes of music at 24/48 and i still havent been able to burn a cd because when i dither down to 16/44 i cant. i have a dithering plugin, but no downsampler that i can find so i end up getting really bad sound from however the program turns the 48 into 44. of course i could be very silly and not seeing a plugin. but 24/48 is audibly to me different. i can tell the difference. of course if you have a downsampling plugin then go for it.
 
The other thing that I should have asked is how will the different settings affect system performance? In other words is it possible that I would only be able to record 15 tracks at 96,000 and 25 tracks at 48,000?
 
U mean and mix one song with both 96k and 48k tracks??? nope, gotta use the same bitrate/khz in the same song for all the waves. You could convert the files though =)

Sabith
 
I'm sorry I should have clarified. I wasn't thinking of changing in one song more as "if I would have recorded this in 48 I could have gotten more tracks".
 
Go back and follow the thread by Skippy the nerd sound expert. It seem there is a smoother warmer sound with the higher 96K. It would make sense to buy the 96K equiptment. This discussion happens everytime new standards are pushed up. Some Akai systems use 56 bit internal processing. I'm sure they have good reasons for what they're doing.
Chuck
 
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