Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] off topic, optical protocols
From: Taybin Rutkin (trutkin_AT_physics.clarku.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 06:34:18 EET
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, D. Stimits wrote:
> schemes can be used such that center and center drift does not care
> about some of the component wear. Add to this that eliminating any D/A
> or A/D controller and using direct optical means is a guaranteed 100%
> linear signal, no temperature drive ever. No noise, no drift, no wear,
> no A/D, no D/A.
Well, you'll have to have an A/D converter somewhere in the line. If the
optical cable is digital, then the A/D converter would live in the
microphone. But there isn't any way to remove the A/D conversion. You
wouldn't need a D/A converter unless you wanted to playback.
Digital versus analog is orthagonal to electrical versus optical.
Taybin
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