No, its not always the same. Although the sequence of 1s and 0s ought to be the same, this has to be represented by an analog electrical or optical signal which can have timing or other imperfections. These imperfections may or may not trouble the device that is receiving the signal: a signal with a lot of noise in it will obviously present more of a challenge to the receiver.
Typically this shows up as "jitter" (search the forums for many, many threads on this topic) which can have some subtle distorting effect on the receiver. But a really top class receiving device (presumeably a DAC in this case) might be able to overcome any noise and make all sources sound alike. HTH Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36784 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
