[rasz]

Imagine LCD screen capable of emitting from IR to UV and people up in arms because laptop vendor software limits output to visible spectrum.

[yndoendo]

I would not agree with your analogy. [0] Turns out the movie industry actually uses infrasound in horror movies. [1] It might also explain why people think old buildings are haunted. [2]

If Apple only focuses on audible sounds, their devices lack the ability to maximize the thrill of horror movies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound

[1] https://nightscapestories.com/the-art-of-sound-design-horror...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/27/spooky-feeli...

[rasz]

Tell me more about laptops and phones sporting 12 inch speakers, not that low frequencies are the problem here.

[ryandrake]

Come on, don't do that here. You can see in the thread I replied to there are practical benefits for supporting additional sampling rates.

[rasz]

Practical reasons vanished ~20 years ago, about the time Microsoft dropped hardware audio acceleration and switched to software audio mixing. Resampling is ear transparent and eats less than 1% of one slowest possible CPU core.