'MSC': Stereo Audio Coding With CD-Quality and 256 kBit/Sec

Today's standard for digital audio recording in the consumer field is the compact disc (CD), where a stereo signal is sampled with fs = 44.1 kHz and quantized with 16 bits. This yields a net data rate of about 1.4 Mbit/sec, that can easily be recorded on an optical disc like the CD or on magnetic tape using the R-DAT signal format.