Blu-Ray Audiophile Sound Quality

[philip2005]

It's been proven over and over again that 44.1kHz is sufficient bandwidth to reproduce anything audible

That's simply not true, 44.1Khz is sufficient to reproduce a 20Khz sine wave which is the upper limit of human hearing. But very rarely is music a simple sine wave. Even a single note played on a guitar or a piano, is far more complex, and it's an average of the pattern of changes in frequency that produce the timbre of the sound, and that change is constant and can't be captured with 44 100 samples a second. When it comes to an ensemble of instruments that change in the wave frequency and magnitude is much more spiradic and complex, and if you can ever see how detailed it is, then see that wave a cd produces there is a lot of detail missing.