On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 14:06 -0800, radish wrote: > In reality, 44.1kHz is such a slow switching speed > for any kind of signalling (fibre optic or electrical) as to be truly > "simple" with todays technology.
A followup nit, 44.1kHz is the sample rate. The signaling rate is at least 32 times that, two channels for stereo, 16 bits per sample. Still, relative nearly anything these days, this is a trivial. It is a tad less than 1.4 mHz, or 176K bytes/second which is of course, the where the 1X CD speed of about 150kB/s comes from. And a little overhead, some error correcting and you still have no challenge. ( I can't remember if SPDIF is raw PCM or has overhead). Even cheap CD readers are 16x or 32x these days. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
