Audio numbers (ex. 16/48)

[ra1024]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

It's not just to do with frequency - it's also to do with accuracy. If you were just listening to sine waves then fair enough, but with music the more samples per second (16/48 = 48,000 samples per second of 16 bit data) the more accurate the music will be; logically.

I thought that sampling theory dictated that as long as you sampled twice as fast as the highest frequency, you could accurately reconstruct the waveform. If that's truly the case, sampling higher shouldn't give you a more accurate waveform at least as I understand it.