isn't the aes-ebu archival standard 96/24? by release format, are you including the 192-96/24 releases available or just cd? Lavry has product with 192/24 now. Dale Francis On Apr 11, 2012, at 13:40, Andrew Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I hope it's understood that what I wrote before in this thread was, "...the > pops and clicks are near square waves, in terms of their rise times..." - > not that a click or pop = square wave. They propagate suddenly. The clicks > which propagate more suddenly than 3.6 µs, when sampled at 88.2 kHz Fs, are > simply not encoded - whence the absence of perturbation. Still, that's a > nice fast sample rate which, according to Dan Lavry, is technically too fast > for perfect accuracy of the bass. 55 kHz is the current sampling speed > limit, according to the designer. 88.2 kHz is good for this test, however, > since we are talking about high frequency events. Still, the music may be > best at 48 kHz Fs, in spite of the worse Squarepushing. It was suggested to > me that program with only a few instruments (chamber music or solos?) would > be best at 48 kHz, and music more rich in overtones would possibly be better > at 88.2 kHz.