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Old 6th January 2006   #2
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Just remember that if you stay in the box all the way through your production chain and you output to conventional CD or mp3, your pristine audio is going to have to go through a nasty 'uneven' sample rate conversion from 96k down to 44.1. (Although you could avoid that ish by working at 88.2 kHz, since it is an even multiple of 44.1 and samples needn't be remapped on down-conversion.) If you mix out of the box, then the issue is moot, assuming you come back into your mixdown A/D at 44.1 or an even multiple. And, of course, if you're working to output to vid (48 or 96 typically) or for burn to a 96 kHz DVD audio disk, no prob.

[EDIT: I did not understand SRC when I wrote this. Good SRC can be 'transparent' within the accuracy limits of the target rate.]
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