Phil Leigh;186049 Wrote: > No I get it now! > > The thing we need to hang onto here is that in studios, digital signals > move all over the place between (digital desks, ADC's, DAC's, > processors, computers / workstations etc etc. > > Generally these are using not plain SPDIF - but then again they aren't > using I2S either!. A master clock is always used to lock everything > together. > > In comparison to what goes on in a studio, the act of playing back two > channels of PCM over SPDIF is really REALLY trivial...and yet we > agonise over it, without ever thinking what kind of processes have been > applied (and yes even in spaced-pair "purist" classical recordings) > before the CD ever got made. > > (sorry this has turned into a rant) > > I really think we need to put things back into a realistic perspective > sometimes. :0)
Hmm, this isn't quite correct. Digital signals are incredibly robust, and moving them around studios or the home or almost anywhere else is really not that difficult. However, what is much more difficult is the process of converting between the digital and analogue domains, where the smallest thing (in particular the clock) can have a 'large' effect. Only one of these processes (ADC) takes place in the studio; the other (DAC) occurs in your home and the quality of your replay will be directly dependent on it. -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33276 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
