[TriEmbed] This hertz to read - why is 32768 Hz the perfect frequency?

[Rodney Radford]

That is one of many issues with that page - I posted it here more as a
laugh to those that know more than this page - not as a real page of
information.

Which is why I said it "hertz my brain" and why I posted tongue in cheek
that there were "a lot of new facts from this I have never seen in any
other location before"  ;-)

Considering this is a vendor's page, i certainly would not want to order
anything from this vendor if this is their level of understanding of what
they are producing/selling.

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 9:32 AM Brian via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org>
wrote:

> On 3/31/23 00:35, Tadd Torborg via TriEmbed wrote:
> >  From the linked article
> >
> > *"The majority of digital audio equipment operates at a sample rate of
> > 44.1 kHz or precisely 215 Hz”*
> >
>
> This is a patently false statement even if you add in the missing caret.
>
> Yeah, so as others have pointed out, the real answer to the silly
> headline question is because it makes a 16-bit counter overflow at
> exactly 1 Hz, which is super useful for driving digital timepieces, and
> apparently happens to be a comfortable resonating frequency for a quartz
> crystal.
>
> There's no clever relationship between 2^16 and 44.1 kHz, though.  44.1k
> is not a nice power of two.  It comes, possibly, from NTSC TV scan
> rates; see https://dsp.stackexchange.com/a/17702
>
> I would question the use of the word "majority" in that sentence as
> well.  I'd claim the vast majority of digital audio equipment is capable
> of handling a variety of sampling rates.
>
> -B (who dabbles in the guts of digital audio)
>
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