McIntosh Approach to Digital Sound
 

Presented by Ken Zelin - digital eliminates noise, analog creates noise - expensive streaming devices and USB cables not required to send digital bits - DAC design is what determines sound reproduction quality - music from hard drive more prescise than from rotating optical mechanical drive - optical cable better than coaxial - loose some music resolution with tubes versus solid state

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygZvU4KHjaQ

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing. I always enjoy a technical video and discussions from the veterans of our hobby. Ken Zelin, while not an engineer, has been around the audio technology since '72 and knows his stuff. :yes:

I’m finding my new replacement Gold Lions tubealicious this evening.

Apple Digital Masters Explained - Further explanation of bit depth and sampling rate

https://www.apple.com/itunes/docs/ap...al-masters.pdf