Wayne Parham Messages: 18756 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
There are lots of technical issues surrounding analog-to-digital and the reverse digital-to-analog conversions. Some are audible, others less so. Naturally, high-quality conversions give the best results, but require faster hardware and more bandwidth. Storage requirements are greater for larger higher-quality files too.
Study things like conversion types, e.g. successive-aproximation, delta-sigma, etc. And study the artifacts each can suffer from, things like aliasing, quantization error and jitter.