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_9vzr on April 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: FiiO M3K review – a pocketable-high quality audio ...

The sampling rate and frequency range are tied together though. The Nyquist rate says the sampling rate must be 2x the bandwidth. If you sample at 96KHz, the most bandwidth you'd get is sound waves up to 48KHz and still be able to accurately reproduce them. However, if human hearing taps out at 28KHz, then you could sample up to 56KHz and still reliably reproduce the same sound.

gwbas1c on April 20, 2021 [–]

At that point, the only real advantage to 96khz is that it pushes any potential distortion out of the audible range.

But going above 96khz or DSD is silly outside of the recording studio.

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