In article , Mister
wrote:

i say quality of reproduction as in the fidelity of the signal. some people
equate the added noise of vinyl as a change in this fidelity, which is not
true. ie a sine wave would look the same, it is not distorted, there is merely
noise added. this is different then a distortion of the waveform. you need to
think in more then one dimension.

I think you are the one that is neglecting "to think in more then one
dimension"! An audio signal passing "through a set of D/A and A/D
converters" will not be suffer any wave form distortion, assuming the D/A
and A/D converters, and sampler are linear, and that the signal feed into
the A/D converter is properly dithered. There is no distortion produced
by a properly dithered A/D - D/A process, the only change to the signal is
the added dithering noise.

It sounds like you didn't graduate college either.


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