Right on! Damn, I gotta keep a closer eye on the DJ! No wonder it's so much better than just cranking my CDs up at home. (That or the fact my sound system is terrible!)
I also haven't mentioned the idiocy of using MP3s over a commercial grade sound system. Let's just say that the ear can detect lots of frequencies and lots of frequency ranges. When speakers have the ability to playback all those frequencies clearly the ear can easily hear the difference between analogue/44.1kHz/MP3.
The general idea you write is true, but the details are a little inaccurate.
I'm a neurobiologist, and I've done a simple experiment that proves a 44.1 kHz sample rate *cannot* replicate what we are capable of perceiving. Even a perfect-fidelity 44.1 kHz digital recording will miss infomation that the human ear and brain can perceive. "How? The human ear doesn't hear anything over about 20 kHz", you ask. True, but the human ear is NOT JUST A FREQUENCY DETECTOR. The time of arrival of sound waves is critically important for some tasks, such as localization of sounds. In fact, this is a huge part of owl hunting strategy. Look up "interaural time difference" for more info. We did a simple experiment which proved that a 44.1 kHz sample rate is not enough to provide all the "acoustical resolution" we're capable of perceiving...
Looks like it's time for a new standard.:) Let's just hope patents don't render it stillborn!
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The general idea you write is true, but the details are a little inaccurate.
I'm a neurobiologist, and I've done a simple experiment that proves a 44.1 kHz sample rate *cannot* replicate what we are capable of perceiving. Even a perfect-fidelity 44.1 kHz digital recording will miss infomation that the human ear and brain can perceive. "How? The human ear doesn't hear anything over about 20 kHz", you ask. True, but the human ear is NOT JUST A FREQUENCY DETECTOR. The time of arrival of sound waves is critically important for some tasks, such as localization of sounds. In fact, this is a huge part of owl hunting strategy. Look up "interaural time difference" for more info. We did a simple experiment which proved that a 44.1 kHz sample rate is not enough to provide all the "acoustical resolution" we're capable of perceiving...
Looks like it's time for a new standard. :) Let's just hope patents don't render it stillborn!