"Karl Uppiano" wrote in message
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FCC standards require commercial FM stations to provide 15 KHz minimum
audio
bandwidth, so the stereo standard was established as a 38 KHz sample rate
with a 19 KHz pilot, which was considered quite adequate to meet the same
standard in stereo. If the engineers at the FCC in the early 60's had set
the standard at 44.1 KHz sample rate with a 22.05 KHz pilot, FM stereo
bandwidth would be exactly the same as CD audio.


Indeed !
But what is the "bandwidth" of the average human ear !!

........... Zed