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.