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Originally Posted by cobaltmute /img/forum/go_quote.gif
That's a bad analogy, and knowing that you are a network guy, you know it. TCP, which handles all of those transmissions, has error correction and re-transmit in the stack. Email or post is also time in-sensitive, so re-transmit doesn't matter.
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I was not at all talking about retries or queuing, ONLY media conversion and bit swapping, many many times as a handoff from one box to another.
there is no 'distortion or noise' in digital, which is what the poster was implying. the bits can fly from media type (100baseT) to my phone wan then up to atm, then (etc etc). bits don't get 'distorted' when they convert from one interface to another.
and while you can see the analog effects of the transmission line, the digital receivers ignore that. they simply care about getting timing and the right bit and I've never seen a modern dac fail, no matter HOW I abuse the spdif wiring (and I do that quite a lot, just informally when I test protos).
if I had not spent a lot of timing 'mis wiring' spdif and still getting it to work, maybe I'd believe in digital 'distortion and noise' too but I've never seen it in my lifetime.
what I'm sayhing is that the shape of the signal means almost nothing to modern spdif receivers. they extract data even in the worst of 'analog situations' for the cabling and connectors.
I would start to believe this if I saw it happen but I just don't see this in the real world, sorry. have to go with my own lying eyes, I guess.