Pat Farrell wrote:
What are you trying to say here?
Just that there is more to this than bits and bytes. Getting the data representation correctly to the DAC is a big part of the it, but hardly the whole game.
Apologies if I've attributed certain concepts or beliefs to you that you don't in fact hold. Perhaps I've misunderstood you.
It's just that I seem to hear a lot of ideas tossed around that basically boil down to "it's digital, so it's perfect, right?". It's a bad meme that seems to have begun around the same time as, and that identifies conceptually with, the "Perfect Sound Forever" marketing phrase that accompanied the rollout of CD Audio.
Of course, being able to perfectly record, reproduce and replay a stream of bits does not mean that the original bitstream fully encoded the acoustic phenomenon in the source environment, or that we have the means to fully recreate these phenomenon by replaying this bitstream at a later date.
I don't understand. It is easy to move bits arround. It is a lot harder to talk about converting bits to music
Exactly. --rt _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
