[music-dsp] The magic number 44100 (ot)

[Theo]

I think its a nice story, but Philips first developed the CD (took them a 
decade or so), then Sony jumped in on a almost finished project.
Rather unlikely a Sony CEO had any influence on basic choices like 
disk size, bit resolution or sample rate.
More likely a Natlab engineer was is a rather bad mood and 
expressed his emotions by choosing 44100.  
 
Theo
BTW anybody remember the Sony pcm unit+vidiorecorder 
with 80kHz (88400 ??) sample rate?



From: Michael Gogins <gogins at pipeline.com>

> I've read interviews in magazines with Akio Morita (name correct?),
> ex-CEO of Sony, and Sony's instigator for the CD, in which he told this
> story about Beethoven's 9th. 
> 
> Since that time, I suspect that engineers may have been able slightly to
> extend the length of audio CDs.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-music-dsp at shoko.calarts.edu
> [mailto:owner-music-dsp at shoko.calarts.edu] On Behalf Of Svante Stadler
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:00 AM
> To: music-dsp at shoko.calarts.edu
> Subject: Re: [music-dsp] The magic number 44100
> 
> 
> >Since the symphony is about 70 minutes it just
> >barely fits on a full length CD at 44100.
> 
> But a CD fits 80 minutes of music! I'm not really
> sure of this, but I have a cd that runs for a stunning
> 79 minutes and 48 seconds.
> 
> /Svante
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