What would you consider evidence? Emails between standards committee members agreeing to collude in order to screw pro-audio customers?
The evidence is: why on earth would anyone on a standards committee choose 44.1kHz, instead of 44.0kHz? The answer: 44.1kHz was transparently obviously chosen to make it impossible to perform on-the-fly rate conversions.
The mathematics of polyphase rate converters was perfectly well understood at the time these standards were created.
Someone else wrote that it was chosen to best match PAL and NTSC. IIRC there is also a Technology Connections video about those early PCM adaptor devices that would record to VHS tape.
rerdavies|1 month ago
The evidence is: why on earth would anyone on a standards committee choose 44.1kHz, instead of 44.0kHz? The answer: 44.1kHz was transparently obviously chosen to make it impossible to perform on-the-fly rate conversions.
The mathematics of polyphase rate converters was perfectly well understood at the time these standards were created.
brewmarche|1 month ago
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=44,100_Hz&oldid=1...>
Take it with a grain of salt, I’m not really knowledgeable about this.
E: also note the section about prime number squares below