MD: Digital "matching a wave" (was: If MDs had come out before CDs)

[Eric Woudenberg, Minidisc.org Editor]

Hi Danny,

"Danny-K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Let us not forget that digital is in essence trying to achieve a wave that
> it never can.

With due respect (and perhaps I'm misinterpreting what you say), this
statement is completely false. Digital "achieves a wave" perfectly,
provided you sample the wave at twice the highest frequency you're
trying to capture. Flaws can be introduced in the conversion (A/D and
D/A) steps, but these are quantifiable (and appear simply as
correlated noise), there's no missing, magic, "element of wave-ness"
that a digital representation lacks.

Rick
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