Quote Originally Posted by cashlz
In somewhat simple terms could someone explain to me exactly what the sampling rate is and how it works. I hope I am even asking this question correctly. Thanks once again

It's simple. You have the title "96kHz" - which is 96,000 cycles per second....in sampling terms, that means you're going to slice something up into 96,000 pieces every second.

Then, each one of those slices is assigned a number to represent the sample's position(yes, it's referenced to something). So now you have a numeric representation of you're original waveform and you can store it on a digital storage medium, like a CD. (BTW - those "slices" are not sequential on a CD, so if you get a scratch, it doesn't wipe out a large chunk of continuous data, but that's another topic of discussion.)

You do the opposite to reassemble it. Just take those numbers, put the sample back into position according to it's value and glue all of them back together, that's the basics.

-Bruce