pablolie wrote: > Phil Leigh;184350 Wrote: >> Well, don't forget that the "digital signal" is still in fact only an >> analogue representation of a digital signal, as with any "bus" - and so >> is susceptible to noise messing with the accuracy of the analogue >> squarewave waveforms... > > But the thing about digital data is that a bit is a bit - whether it > arrives as a perfect soliton or as a somewhat distorted mess does not > really matter because the other end will see it as a 1 or a 0 no matter > how ugly it got to look.
No, that's not true, and this is a common misconception. It's digital data, but it's sent over an analogue transmission path. The 1s and 0s are converted to different voltages and the resulting signal sent down the cable. At the other end, the receiver reads the signal and converts the different voltages into 1s and 0s. If the signal on the cable gets distorted in any way then the signal produced by the receiver may not match that fed into the transmitter. R. _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
