Template:Sampling Rates

Sampling Rates

Some Common Sampling Rates

Sampling Rate	Use
2,822,400 Hz	SACD
192kHz	Professional recording
96kHz	Professional recording Modern Sound Cards HDDVD BlueRay SACD etc
48 kHz	Professional recording (commonly used for TV/film)
44.1 kHz	CD quality Audio
32 kHz	miniDV digital video camcorder, DAT (LP mode)
22 kHz	lower-quality PCM and MPEG audio
11 kHz	Multimedia/ Games
8 kHz	telephone, adequate for human speech

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_rate

File Size per Sampling rate and Bit Depth

Sample Rate	Bit Width	File Size per minute
96 kHz	24-bit Stereo	33.0 MB
44.1 kHz	16-bit Stereo	10.5 MB
44.1 kHz	16-bit Mono	5.3 MB
44.1 kHz	8-bit Stereo	5.3 MB
44.1 kHz	8-bit Mono	2.6 MB
22 kHz	16-bit Stereo	5.3 MB
22 kHz	16-bit Mono	2.6 MB
22 kHz	8-bit Stereo	2.6 MB
22 kHz	8-bit Mono	1.3 MB
11 kHz	16-bit Stereo	2.6 MB
11 kHz	16-bit Mono	1.3 MB
11 kHz	8-bit Stereo	1.3 MB
11 kHz	8-bit Mono	660 KB

  Note : Dropping the Sampling Rate or Bit Depth by half leads to half the file size