curious Of course our ears are not able to detect any gaps at a sampling frequency of 44100 Hz and the loss through analog recording is much worse than any theoretical benefit of not having these gaps.
I certainly don’t see it that way. It is not for nothing that we audiophiles prefer low-inductance moving coil phono cartridges with usable response to 50 or 100 kHz.
As early as 1979, we had such figures as Peter Aczel, “The Audio Critic”, screaming that the sampling rate was too low and “must not become the standard”. The sampling rate he was referring to would have been 50 kHz, since CDs weren’t around yet, and that’s what the digital tape recorders of the day were using.
Of course, in his later years, Aczel would go on to repudiate virtually his entire body of work and become a member of the Everything-Sounds-The-Same Club.
http://www.biline.ca/audio_critic/audio_critic.htm
I would say that digital has tended to perform poorly with music that incorporates syncopation and/or dissonance.
-audioguy (who is kind of having PTSD flashbacks to all of the food-fights and flame wars of the last 45 years within the high-end audio community)
