He's not wrong.
Digital is all just 1's and 0's but I think his point is that there are environmental factors that apply to both analog and digital signals that complicate the issue. A bad analog tv signal comes up as static and faded picture. A bad digital signal blocks up and goes choppy. Same situation just with slightly different symptoms. If external factors affect the ability to receive those 1s and 0s then it's just like analog.
The most interesting thing in the article was that if you rip your CD with something like dbPoweramp, the rip is compared to a database of thousands of users and can be corrected automatically. I did not know that.
He's not right either. "If external factors affect the ability to receive those 1s and 0s then it's just like analog." is not the sole comparative value defining the two.
Yes, it's still an electrical signal and it is still subject to potential interference. Digital or Analog is merely the *format* of that signal. A digital signal has two states, call them what you want (0 and 1, on or off, whatever). The idea being that a digital formatted signal is more resilient to interference and weak signal issues, it doesnt have to be a flat line at 0 or a flat line at 1, as long as the base signal + noise is still
close enough to the intended value, its going to be decoded properly on the other end. If there's too much noise, of course the transmission will be impacted when decoded. Analog formatting is a more "true to the source" formatting, but it's also much much more susceptible to noise degrading and distorting the signal, and a weak signal can easily alter or corrupt the received data.
Ben90 said:
He is trying to merge physical and logical states into one concept. Is there something important that he brings to the table, or are you just showing us you found someone who doesn't know what they are talking about on the internet? I stopped reading after it was obvious he was trying to play smarter than he actually is.
I have to agree, are these guys trying to make a point, or are they just a bunch of misinformed audiophiles trying to justify why "digital is bad" to themselves?
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