26-Feb-2016, 18:36
(26-Feb-2016, 17:54)Krisp Wrote: Lets keep with the assumption that the digital path from the source (we start here with the CD or file and not the instrument in the recording studio) to the output of the DAC is error free (as long as the CD has no read errors). This is assured by transport protocols otherwise computers will not be able to work as a predictable machine.
Let's not as it is not true. The digital path is at best error free from the source up to the input of the DAC. Better said, the D to A conversion itself is not lossless.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital-..._converter
I agree that the transport of the bit stream into for example an USB receiver inside the DAC machine is easy to do right, as in bit-perfect.
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