Robin Bowes Wrote: > > It's the timing information that is the issue. This has been covered on > these formums many times. >
There are (at least) two problems which could occur; one is timing (jitter) and the other is simply bad bits. I think it's impossible for bad bits to have an effect like changing the bass. But even for jitter, it seems rather unlikely, since the spurious sounds introduced by jitter will have a spectrum which has absolutely nothing to do with the music. They are due to reflections in the cable, interference from the power supply, maybe your neighbor running his dishwasher - but it's nothing at all to do with the frequency spectrum of the music itself (unlike analogue, where there are many frequency dependent effects). > > > No, it's not the same at all. > > Network transmission has error correction. The data is wrapped up in > various layers of protocols. > > With digital audio, the bits simply transmitted over an analogue > medium. > There are all sorts of ways the signal can degrade in transmission and > hence the musical information represented by the signal can be > affected. > > R. I agree, it's not a very good analogy - so suppose instead the file gets corrupted in transfer, then the same question. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24670 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
