garym;617074 Wrote: > I'm no expert, but there is more variability in the player in most > (all?) cases than in the instrument itself (and even the hall/room > where played). And even two very similar instruments rarely sound > identical given the wood parts used, humidity where stored, and on and > on. I'm just guessing here of course but I think of an instrument as > being more like analog...that is, there are things that can cause > pretty major differences. This is certainly much less possible in the > digital world of zeros & ones.
Zeros and ones are always zeros and ones. Providing that their original order is not tampered with, you cannot have theoretical possibility of detecting any variations. However, it is at the point where zeros and ones get transformed into analog signal that variabilities creep in. For example, if you're on a Mac computer, locate a good quality photo on your hard drive. Open that photo in Safari. Then open the same photo in Firefox. Now position both browsers side-by-side (you may have to do some resizing of each browser window), and compare the two renditions of the same photo. Yes, it's the same zeros and ones, but these two photos look very different. Why is that? Digital-to-analog conversion. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86236 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
