Hi! I just downloaded Britney Spears’ album in lossless format, but there’s a cutoff at 21kHz on the spectrogram (the entire album is like this). Then, I changed the source and downloaded it from Qobuz, but it still has that cutoff. Her other albums can easily reach 22kHz. Is there a reason behind this, or is it just a mastering error?

Here’s the screenshots: https://i.ibb.co/YQD3jtp/Hh31-211503928.jpg

  • Zeeall@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    CDs are often cut off at bit over 20khz, i belive this is so dithering works better?

    There really is no point in having the music go to much over 20khz anyway, you cant hear that high.

  • peptobiscuit@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    When you Google “21khz cut” you get 5 years of reddit threads saying this is typical and you’re wasting your time looking at spectral analysis lol.

    The tldr is cutting above 20khz removes harshness from a track.