"dale" wrote in message
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deficences can be do to the actual mqastering involved, the quality of
the da and other such issues.
when cd first became commercial, many companies released their
catlogues using the LP master
with the RIAA curve intact and the players were outputting the audio
one sample out of time, L then R then L then R.

the quality of the playbck can be from inexpensive players. the issues
of reading and converting the digital to analogue can change the sound.

poor reading means error correction to replace misread data.
bad DA conversion and then the actual analogue out slurs the music.

and the inputs of the preamp and amp can be less then the audio being
sent to it.

the issue of 44.1 playback is an engineering concern.
just like those with the turntable.

Exactly. I think the real question for people comercial music is how audible
are the differences when played back over a typical consumer system, or over
the radio, or in a music video. Not to say that the pursuit of this level of
quality is frivolous, but it becomes less important when the target audience
that has the gear to appreciate it is a tiny fraction of your overall
audience.

Personally, I think that trying to engineer for both mono and stereo
playback is far more of a ball & chain than using 16bit @ 44.1KHz for
distribution.

Sean