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And many modern sound card IC sample at an effective rate of 192kHz and use internal DSP to downsample that to the requested sample rate. Much easier to design a good low pass filter on the cheap when your Nyquist frequency is on 96kHz instead of 22kHz.

So the frontend of the sound card might actually be remarkably wide.



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