Sampling rates higher than 44.1Khz? Options

[Grand Dizzy]

I recently met a musician who claims he can quite easily hear the difference between 44.1KHz and 96KHz.

This shocked me a little because I'd always been told that the human ear cannot hear any higher quality than CD (44.1KHz) quality.

So... was this guy just lying (or fooled by his senses), or was I being lied to when I was told the human ear cannot hear any higher quality than CD?

This post has been edited by Grand Dizzy: Feb 5 2006, 01:11

[Rotareneg]

For an example of ultrasonic sound producing audible sounds, try http://www.atcsd.com/pdf/HSSWHTPAPERRevE.pdf and http://www.atcsd.com/hss.html

Personally don't like the idea of high amplitude ultrasonic sound being shot at me without plenty of medical research showing that high SPL ultrasound really is harmless and that it won't cause someone's hearing aid to burst into flame or explode.

As for sampling rates, 44.1 kHz's fine with me since a decent microphone should record anything that my ear would if it were in the same general location and I most definately can't hear beyond 20 kHz (and that's being generous. )

This post has been edited by Rotareneg: Feb 10 2006, 07:19