Xref: utzoo comp.std.internat:640 rec.video:11216 comp.graphics:10506 sci.electronics:10737 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bas+ From: bas+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bruce Sherwood) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,rec.video,comp.graphics,sci.electronics Subject: Re: Why I hate CDs (was Re: I don't need HDTV!) Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 90 17:13:19 GMT References: <1554@redsox.bsw.com> <4154@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>, <7080@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Organization: Center for Design of Educational Computing, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 10 In-Reply-To: <7080@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Sigh. I was afraid of this. I'll restate it: Maybe someone cares about CDs going above 20 KHz. So to make the point I was attempting to make let's say that no one cares about CD audio going above 100 KHz, or if that isn't enough, 1 MHz, ok? My point is that there IS a physiological limit. Beyond a certain point it isn't even a tradeoff between quality and cost: higher fidelity won't make ANY difference because of limitations of human perception. Bruce Sherwood