Red Audio - twice the bitrate for 2 channels?

[Matthew Greene]

Have you guys decided what levels the outputs would be (e.g. -10dbu, +4dbu)? Also, can you play MP3s on that thing?

 

[GlennChan]

I would rather have a really great 48khz ADC than a crappy 96khz.

Some well-done 48khz implementations are actually (over)sampled at 96khz, digitally filtered, and then down sampled to 48khz. To avoid aliasing, you need to apply analog and/or digital filtering. For digital filtering, you need to oversample, do your filtering, and then down sample. Which route (analog or digital filtering) is taken depends on the cost/performance of the necessary parts. But if you are oversampling to begin with, it's not much of a stretch to have the option of recording 96khz also.

For the math/theory stuff (from a practical standpoint) on sampling, see
http://www.wescottdesign.com/articles/Sampling/sampling.html
"What Nyquist didn't say"

2- I do agree that well-done 16/48khz is nice to have (especially smooth sounding limiters, which is unrelated to sampling rate). 96khz might simply be a nice side effect of good 48khz.

Workflow-wise, 16/48khz is so easy to deal with.

 

[Matthew Greene]

My personal view on it is that for dialog higer rates are not necessary. The times when you really can benefit from recording at higher rates you're really going to have a double system setup anyways. That's just how it works out for me, not saying that someone else doesn't have the need for it. I'm not opposed to having greater sampling rates and bit depths available but by no means am I dissapointed by 4 channels of 24bit 48Khz.

Oh, and ditto with the AD/DA converter opinion/info.