Mike Fremers Oct review of the Esoteric universal player has in my opinion, done much to confuse and mislead readers.
His statement that "Many audiophiles forget that an optical disk is actually an analog format...." is not so. If he is refering to the variations of signal strength read because of disk and laser variations as "analog", then there is no true digital data. Magnetic disk data has varying (analog)levels of flux density for both 1s and 0s. Digital interfaces such as 5 volt TTL signals also have (analog) variations in their levels. Not exactly 0V or 5V.
All digital have specifications to allow for a range of values to be determined as a one or a zero. This does not make this data analog and to call them such just causes confusion.
Mike Fremers Oct review of the Esoteric universal player has in my opinion, done much to confuse and mislead readers.
His statement that "Many audiophiles forget that an optical disk is actually an analog format...." is not so. If he is refering to the variations of signal strength read because of disk and laser variations as "analog", then there is no true digital data. Magnetic disk data has varying (analog)levels of flux density for both 1s and 0s. Digital interfaces such as 5 volt TTL signals also have (analog) variations in their levels. Not exactly 0V or 5V.
All digital have specifications to allow for a range of values to be determined as a one or a zero. This does not make this data analog and to call them such just causes confusion.