In Reply to: Thanks, but could you please elaborate on... posted by John Marks on April 22, 2016 at 13:25:57:
The same bits can be conveyed by slightly different waveforms due to noise and timing issues associated with the transmitter at the transport, the digital cable, or the digital receiver in the DAC. In an ideal world, the digital receiver in the DAC would correctly interpret the bits and would eliminate all of the noise and timing issues. In the actual world, this does not happen and some of the variations make it to the analog output of the DAC.
Here are two strings of bits that are the same, but are physically different on the screen:
0 1 0 1 0 01 0 1 1 1 01
0 101 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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- RE: Thanks, but could you please elaborate on... - Tony Lauck 09:13:38 04/23/16 (8)
- I think then we are using different terms for the same thing - John Marks 10:12:01 04/23/16 (3)
- RE: I think then we are using different terms for the same thing - Tony Lauck 10:35:22 04/23/16 (2)
- If as much money flowed into high end audio as flowed into military electronics - Dave_K 14:45:52 04/25/16 (0)
- Well, is not dCS a Military Avionics Prime Contractor??? NT - John Marks 10:57:56 04/23/16 (0)
- RE: Thanks, but could you please elaborate on... - Isaak J. Garvey 09:35:37 04/23/16 (3)
- RE: Thanks, but could you please elaborate on... - Dave_K 14:33:50 04/25/16 (0)
- RE: Thanks, but could you please elaborate on... - Tony Lauck 14:52:57 04/23/16 (1)
- RE: Thanks, but could you please elaborate on... - Isaak J. Garvey 15:07:22 04/23/16 (0)