Comment by leif
14 years ago
You clearly have little to no musical background, and think that your basic math skills are a substitute. The overtones present in a cymbal or triangle are not straight multiples of the fundamental, they are chaotic, and are very important in determining the timbre. Anyone (and I mean that) can easily tell the difference between a cymbal with and without a low-pass filter with the threshold around 22kHz, because these "inaudible" frequencies are lost.
If anyone can hear it, then surely it must have been verified through a double-blind test. Can you provide a citation?
I don't know of any to point you to. They probably exist, but I haven't read them. Let me know if you stir some up.
This is a much more polite response than what I had in mind. Better this way I guess :)
The undertones created by the high overtones are realized in the anti-aliasing filter during recording. That's not actually the reason 44 kHz sampling isn't enough.
1: He said "harmonics", not overtones. 2: You can not hear inaudible frequencies. Because they are inaudible.
1: You're still wrong. One person's typo is not a slight against physics. 2: That's what "sarcastic quotes" are for.