servies;238874 Wrote: > ... when the bitstreams are the same, that there can be no difference in > sound.
I know that several other people have already tried to point out the error here, but I'll have another go... This statement is unfortunately false in the context of the digital output of a CD player (or SB, etc). Thats because the output signal contains clock (timing) as well as data information, and the receiving DAC has to try to extract both timing and data from a single waveform. If that waveform is imperfect (which it ALWAYS will be) then it becomes more or less difficult for the DAC to recover both. Some DACs, by design, are relatively immune to timing errors, however most are not. The resulting sound will therefore be noticeably different depending on the quality of the digital source, even if the data bits are identical. This is entirely different from, say, a TCP/IP connection, or an IDE disc connection, where the data transmission takes place entirely in a digital domain and the only possible errors are bit errors (which are likely to be corrected and fixed anyway). HTH Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39684 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
