Christopher "Monty" Montgomery

The digital-audio engineer whose argument sits under this spoke's sample-rate page. Quoted in headphonesty-192khz-vs-441khz as the source of the strong claim — that 192 kHz distribution is not merely useless but "not quite neutral either; practical fidelity is slightly worse," because ultrasonic content is "a liability during playback" on equipment that reproduces it nonlinearly.

Per Wikipedia (checked 2026-08-30): born 6 June 1972, an American multimedia programmer and free software advocate in the Boston area, online as xiphmont. He founded The Xiph.Org Foundation, created the Ogg container and the Vorbis codec, worked on Theora at Red Hat, and contributed to FLAC, Opus and Daala. BSc in EECS from MIT, MEng from Tokyo Institute of Technology.

That biography is why his position carries weight here and also why it should be read as an interested one: he is the author of the codecs that make CD-rate distribution sufficient, arguing that CD-rate distribution is sufficient. The argument stands or falls on its mechanism, not on the CV — and the mechanism, ultrasonic intermodulation in imperfect playback hardware, is a prediction nobody in this corpus has measured on real program material.

He is the first person paged in this spoke for a claim about digital audio rather than for making an instrument.

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