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Comment author: David_Gerard 15 July 2014 01:21:24PM *  0 points [-]

The standard is still 16/44, because that can hold the entire hearing range of any human ever tested (see also videos), though the trouble is that's different from what people actually use it to hold. And it's what's on CDs and what most compressed files expand to.

Probably the most likely way out of the loudness wars will be Apple telling engineers not to do that, because LOUDNESS WARS mixes will be made quieter in iTunes. Cross fingers.