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Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) recorded Discovery in Bangalter’s home studio, Daft House, using a legendary but decidedly vintage and early-digital gear setup.
(2013). That album was intentionally mastered at this frequency by Bob Ludwig to maximize his equipment's potential. Is 88.2kHz Actually "Better"? daft punk discovery 2001 flac 88 better
When your Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) processes a standard 44.1kHz file, it has to use an "anti-imaging" filter to eliminate high-frequency digital noise just above the limit of human hearing. Because 22.05kHz is very close to 20kHz, this filter has to be incredibly steep (often called a "brick-wall" filter). Cheap or poorly designed DACs can introduce phase distortion or artifacts in the audible high frequencies because of this aggressive filtering. Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo)