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RE: Ultrasonic Nonsense, speakers, etc. What do you guys think?

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In Reply to: RE: Ultrasonic Nonsense, speakers, etc. What do you guys think? posted by g_greenamyer@yahoo.com on March 11, 2012 at 20:48:58

Nonsense.
Or not.
There is a valid school of thought that when one extends the bandwidth of a component to beyond useful frequencies, that the audible range has the potential to be more linear. Kind of like having a car that "can" go 200 mph, and therefore is quite comfortable at 80. Or, like having a subwoofer that "can" deliver 10 Hz, and is quite comfortable at 30. Or like having a midrange driver than is good to 5000 Hz, but you cross it at 2500.
There's also the issue of "beat frequencies" - audible frequencies generated by the interaction of very high frequencies, particularly when music is performed by multiple players indoors. However, since those beat frequencies are already in the audible spectrum, there's no need to record the ultra-high frequencies which generated them.
In any case, unless one possesses a system where every component is capable of reproducing ultra-high audio frequencies AND has source material which includes it (meaning that the recording was made with similar HF capabilities), the question is moot. (I've always wanted to use that word.)

Edits: 03/13/12

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