@sleepwalker65
Actually, in practice, it does capture the entire waveform. It simply does it differently than analog.
It’s like saying "You know a FLAC file doesn’t capture the entire musical file, right?"
Sure, it’s true a FLAC file is "physically different" from the original file, at about 1/2 the size. But in the sense that matters for the purpose - capturing and transmitting the *same information* - it DOES capture all the relevant information.
Essentially the same premise holds for digital recording. Look at the links I already provided.
In the context of the issue you are responding to, that’s an awkward way to put it, and blurs the issues being discussed.
We have to delineate between someone’s subjective perception of what he hears and likes, vs coming up with technical explanations.
As we’ve seen, some audiophiles who prefer analog over digital, in trying to justify or explain this, adopt incorrect technical ideas, such as the claim that digital can not or does not recreate the original wave form and analog does. That’s just wrong.
Talk of preferences will bring in all sorts of differing opinions, which is fine, but I was responding to the promulgation of incorrect technical claims.
You know that digital does not record the entire analog waveform right?
Actually, in practice, it does capture the entire waveform. It simply does it differently than analog.
It’s like saying "You know a FLAC file doesn’t capture the entire musical file, right?"
Sure, it’s true a FLAC file is "physically different" from the original file, at about 1/2 the size. But in the sense that matters for the purpose - capturing and transmitting the *same information* - it DOES capture all the relevant information.
Essentially the same premise holds for digital recording. Look at the links I already provided.
The question becomes, after one reviews all of the complicated mathematics: “in practice, does it satisfy my expectations?”
In the context of the issue you are responding to, that’s an awkward way to put it, and blurs the issues being discussed.
We have to delineate between someone’s subjective perception of what he hears and likes, vs coming up with technical explanations.
As we’ve seen, some audiophiles who prefer analog over digital, in trying to justify or explain this, adopt incorrect technical ideas, such as the claim that digital can not or does not recreate the original wave form and analog does. That’s just wrong.
Talk of preferences will bring in all sorts of differing opinions, which is fine, but I was responding to the promulgation of incorrect technical claims.