[net.audio] the Joy of CDism

charles@sunybcs.UUCP (Charles E. Pearson) (06/20/84)

Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CDs: why no square waves?
References: <2885@rabbit.UUCP>

Digital is digital and analogue is analogue.
Your arguement is still that of an analogue engineer
not an arguement of a digital engineer.
Your appraoch starts from analogue reasoning not digital.
Rethink your standpoint.  Try again.
CDs don't produce flat square waves not because...
  an analogue sampled into digital would look like the one
  produced, but because the computer written disk is correct
  and the CD player refuses to produce a correct square wave.
 
  The arguement is not what the analogue starting point would
  have produced (through the digital process) as compared to what
  the CD is producing, but what the CD should be producing in
  the first place and without error.