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Old 2008-06-24, 04:03 PM
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32kHz upsampled to 44.1kHz - lossy?

Couple of Zep torrents posted over at ABT, and one of them has the lineage -
Analogue -> 32kHz DAT multiple times -> upsampled to 44.1kHz

It's been sampled from analogue at 32kHz, any 'upsampling' to bring it back up to 44.1kHz can only be based on an algorithm which will 'guess' what to put in..... and such algorithm is every bit as bad as those which 'guess' what to throw away when forming an mp3, ATRAC, or similar lossy file.

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