Sampling Rate

Sampling rate is the number of times per second that an analog audio signal is sampled or "measured", at discrete intervals of time, during processing (original recording and A to D conversion).

Sampling frequency is the rate at which an analog signal is sampled into a digital signal consisting of digital samples and is usually measured in hertz, or samples per second.

Higher frequencies imply higher-quality sampling, that is, the higher the sampling frequency, the greater the frequency content of the source material that can be accurately represented in the recording.