A needle wiggling in a groove is a continuous function of the original signal. A digital recording is a a digital piecewise approximation.
In the end it doesn't really matter -- to my ears it all sounds good when the music itself is good. On Jan 4, 2008 10:20 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not really up my on physics, but if you zoom in far enough into an analog > recording at a subatomic level aren't there discrete steps (or does it just > keep going?) >
