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Old May 22nd 04, 12:03 AM posted to rec.audio.tech,rec.audio.misc,rec.audio.pro,uk.rec.audio
Tim S Kemp
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Default Digital audio stream terms?

DaveC wrote:

An audio CD is digitized at 44.1 KHz, but there's no Kbps rating
associated with the digitizing, that I'm aware of.


16 bits per sample, two seperate channels no compression therefore
1411.2Kbps. The data rate from the disk though is higher as each byte is
encoded as 14 bits for resilience, so 2469.6Kbps.

You did ask.