16/44.1 is frought with problems too great to get into on this forum. The biggest problem outside of error correction is it assumes that sounds outside the 20-20,000 Hz range does not affect audible sound. It does, and that is why CDs sound thin and lifeless.
I know the CD proponants will take exception to this but the medium is fatally flawed. SACD has much more potential, but there will be the learning curve with it just like redbook CD. Early digital recordings sounded dismal. In the last twenty years recording studio engineers have learned to use the format so new recordings are listenable.
LPs do not have these limitations. The frequency response is not unlimited, but it is far greater than CD, or digital formats.
The fact that SACD became a reality is an admission that CD was a flawed format.
Let the fireworks begin!!!
I know the CD proponants will take exception to this but the medium is fatally flawed. SACD has much more potential, but there will be the learning curve with it just like redbook CD. Early digital recordings sounded dismal. In the last twenty years recording studio engineers have learned to use the format so new recordings are listenable.
LPs do not have these limitations. The frequency response is not unlimited, but it is far greater than CD, or digital formats.
The fact that SACD became a reality is an admission that CD was a flawed format.
Let the fireworks begin!!!