pablolie;184686 Wrote: > Biphase Mark Coding is encoding for *digital* data, plus the frequency > of the clock is twice the frequency of the original signal. The result > is that at the physical level it's not about 0 and 1, but about even > simpler polarity changes, which makes data *and* clock *easier* to > recover. I never claimed there are no analog elements at the > transmission layer - my point is that analog signal integrity is less > critical for sound purity than with "pure" analogue signal > transmission. Are you questioning that? > > Truly don't know what we're arguing about here? Are you claiming > digital data transported via SPDIF is prone to bit errors? Are we back > to the jitter issue, which you labeled immaterial yourself? Or are you > saying that signal integrity is just as critical for purity in the pure > analog as it is in the digital domain, as the person I was countering > seemed to maintain? > > I think the OSI layers are getting mixed up in there discussions. At > the lowest physical layer, there'll always be analog effects. but the > interface to the "data link layer" is purely digital, and as long as it > presents the same digital information for the higher layers to process > whatever signal distortion at the physical analog level does not matter > an ounce provided everything is properly contained in its respective > module. Easier said in theory than done in practise.
How is that saying now? "A little knowledge kan be a dangerous thing"? I bet you can't even imagine the flaws inherent to the old SPDIF system. -- P Floding No, I didn't ABX it. And I won't even if you ask me. (Especially not if you ask me.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33146 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
