What is the difference between digital and analog audio?
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Think about the difference between a real drawing on paper versus a pixelated image on a computer. The former is an analog image and the latter is digital. As you zoom in, you see ever greater detail on the real drawing, though eventually it gets kind of blurry. With the computer image, the pixels just get bigger. There’s a fixed amount of information in there and when you look close, you can see that.
It’s the exact same thing with audio. An analog audio signal is like the drawing where it is made out of something physical (like a voltage level), where the digital audio signal is just a series of integers.
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