From the course: Digital Audio Foundations
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How digital connections work
- With analog cables and connections there are many different physical plugs and several types, or levels, of signals and the physical connection doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what kind of signal passes along the wire. With digital cables and connections it's a similar situation but with a couple more layers of complexity. First, there's the physical connection, the shape of the plug and the type of the wire. Second, there's the communication protocol, how the data is encoded and timed as electrical voltages and how the flow of that data is controlled. Third, there's the format of the audio itself and that includes factors like sample rate, bit depth, and whether the audio is mono, or stereo, or multichannel. Let's discuss some common digital audio connections, which I like to sort into two categories. The first category is general computer connections, which are used for audio but also for other computer peripherals. The most common digital connection in the average…
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