* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Romain Kang) on Mon, 03 Apr 2000
| Comparing coaxial and Toslink, there is actually a measurable
| difference between what you get at the other end of the line. The
| archives of rec.audio.pro have discussions of this phenomenon, though
| it's been a number of years since I've kept up with this subject.
If it were an analog signal, it would matter. But whether a "1" has an
intensity of X or several times X does not change its value one bit :).
| The issue is "transport jitter", where the timing between the bits
| varies by some amount (in the range of 5 to 500 picoseconds, if memory
| serves).
Which is compensated by the error correction inherent in the protocol and
the data buffering in the receiver. A string of 16 bits is a string of 16
bits, period.
In other words, the "audiophiles" are hearing what they want to hear, not
what is really getting to their ears.
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