I have no problem with Bob's set up. It probably works pretty good.
My problem is with the marketing ploy of "digital" speakers or "digital" headsets, etc. Many equate "digital" with higher grade equipment but I've seen $5.00 headphones with "digital" marked on them.
Audio is not "digital", it is analog. Although the signal may be processed inside the Computer or whatever as digital, it is converted to analog in order to be heard. Same way with a dial-up modem, it converts the digital signal to analog (audio) for use on the phone line, or takes the analog signal from the phone line and converts it to digital for use internally by the computer.
As I said, just a comment on the "digital" marketing ploy.
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Postby Bill Crook »
Jack....
<SMALL> Audio is not "digital", it is analog </SMALL>
I agree wholehearted, Too many times analog has been pased off as "Digital". I have a friend that requested that I take all his "Sing-A-Long" tapes (about 200 of them) and put them on CD's so they would be "Digital". I don't think I ever did convince him that just because the audio was on a CD, It wasn't any better than the $39.00 Radio Shack tape player that he used to play them on. (BTY, I didn't do the CD's)
To me, "DIGITAL" speakers is a laugh. A speaker is an analog device, no matter how you package it.
I've worked with D/A converters since the mid 60's and when computers were still evolving into solid state discrete components (and we actually repaired the components) and was involved with downlink Telemetry processors in the Apollo program which had D/A converters to drive analog pen strip recorders.
The Cambridge speakers that process the digital signal internally obviously does simplify the process, but it still gets down to the "speakers" are not "digital". The speaker does not operate on a DC voltage.
I have a Panasonic headphone that has a sticker on them that says "for digital". However, all they do is reproduce the analog audio signal.
Like I said, I have no problem with your application and it could have been someone else that mentioned "digital speakers". Just happened it was your post.
Don't use your computer speakers to do mixing, though. They are so far from flat it's not funny. You'll think you have a good mix, but when you take it to a boombox or your car it will sound terrible.
"Digital Quality" is the most meaningless phrase I've ever heard!
Steve, I don't know either. I thought I'd throw that in since it looked like he was responding to my post. Maybe Bob was still partying when he answered my post.
