source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 17:20:34 -0700 Subject: 48KHz vs 44.1KHz and Pierce-Bohlen Tuning From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> I just noticed an amusing, although probably not-terribly-useful, mathematical semicoincidence: If you were to record something at 48KHz on a DAT deck (many DAT decks record analog sources only at 44.1KHz) and then play the result back at 44.1KHz, you will end up almost exactly one Pierce-Bohlen chro- matic scale step flat. The difference is only about 0.4 cents. Or to put it another way, 44.1KHz x 13th root of 3 = 47.98884KHz. Wild, eh? Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 05:04 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA14701; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 20:04:06 -0700 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 20:04:06 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu