For the HD Audio specification for personal computers, see Intel High Definition Audio. High-resolution audio, also known as High-definition audio or HD audio, is a marketing term used by some recorded-music retailers and high-fidelity sound reproduction equipment vendors.[1][2] It refers to higher than 44.1 kHz sample rate and/or higher that 16-bit linear bit depth. It usually means 96 kHz (or even much higher), sometimes informally written as “96k”, meaning a Nyquist frequency of 48 kHz, which is outside

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