what is the different between digital and stereo?

Answer 1

Mono means one channel (or one speaker)
Stereo means two channels (or two speakers with different sound coming from each)

Digital has nothing to do with stereo... Digital means that the information is stored in digital form, as opposed to analogue... An old black LP record is analogue, a CD is digital... Digital sound can be Mono (one channel), Stereo (two channels) or multichannel (2.1=3 channels, 5.1=6 channels, 6.1=7 channels, 7.1=8 channels or more)

Answer 2

Digital is the breaking down of sound into binary information (0s and 1s). This is opposed to analog, which is a physical imprint of sound, like a record groove.

Stereo is a type of sound-reproduction that produces two sound channels (usually left and right). Stereo is short for stereophonic. There is also monophonic, which is one sound channel, and quadrophonic, which is four sound channels.

Answer 3

no difference between the two. stereo sound is made from two or more speakers and digital data is data in electronic form for example a cd is in digital form.

Answer 4

Digital is the type of format -i.e. by using 1's and 0's.

Stereo is the discreet channel seperation of the right and the left.

Answer 5

(Dolby, Optical, etc) Digital vs. Analog (Stereo)

Biggest difference is the price... however, I don't think that's what you intended... storage medium for digital has already been picked apart.

Stereo is as optimal a soundstage as you'll be able to reproduce when listening to music. Face it music was mixed by a technition in a studio, with a mixing console, and panning fader deciding which side the bass guitar should be on, placement of vocals to the center of the stage, and the location of all the instruments within that stereo stage.

With the left and right channel played through a turn table, coupled to a preamp, through the EQ, fired to the amplifier, and out to the staged speakers is going give most audiophiles a good run for their money. Taking into consideration, they likely just dished out $20k + for their gear. Not to mention the phase aligning power cleaners, balanced cables, and cost to replace tubes... and the days upon days spent reorganizing their space for acoustic perfection.

Digitial on the flip side, is somewhat of a loaded word. This has been established above, and can be applied to just about anything to do with electronics. However, it could be stated that the staging effects of digital in comparison to a good 2 channel stage, directly opposed to using rear fill satellites with a full left, right, center, and the mono sub channel, just creates a mess when you're applying room acoustics to the ambient demands of music reproduction. Digital in this display gets the crap kicked out of it over stereo for ambient staging reproduction simplicity for an average system. However, for home theatre full room ambience, a good staged multi-channel arrangment runs circles around stereo.

Stereo in this respect can reproduce music wonderfully and accurately, while still producing a modest mind blowing theatre experience with a powerful enough system. Whereas, Digital systems tend to rely on the fill effects in relation to their small size to create the same ambience produced by the Stereo speakers. The problem with this, rear fill just doesn't work well hwen playing music. Nobody stands backwards at a rock concert, this is also a common problem with car audio, when people overdrive the rear fills, it dissrupts the front channels ability to create a proper stage. The result is something that sounds unnatural.

With that said, digital on it's own can't survive with analog, but analog can survive without digital. Besides, there is no such thing as a true digital amplifier, as even the Class D (commonly mislabelled) is still using a majority of it's circuitry based on analog designs. Though, Digital Effects Processors are capable of splitting, resampling, and converting an analog source to digital, it still has to pass through a DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) so it can be sent to the analog speakers.

Mixing the two... Digital reproduction is considered even by hardened audiophiles over analog, as a source, to be capable of cleanly reproducing music in ways analog could only dream of. Mainly, you don't have the elevated tape hiss, the pops and scratches of vinyl, and the annoyance of 8-track splitting the mix half-way through your favourite song. But!!! The analog recordings are as true tonally to the original as any medium can get, and unfortunately digital recordings fail in comparison. They are also considered tonally harsher because the sound signal has to be converted from a square and reinterpolated back to an analog wave. During this conversion, information is either lost, or open to interpretation. Hence the problems with bitrates, the heated arguments over OGG, MP4, WMA, etc...

There's still problems with this, as the benefits that analog sources provide over digital are truthfully wasted on the average person. Most speaker systems, amplifiers, and crap we call stereo systems today in our make it smaller, make it cheaper society, just don't do analog justice. In comes the computer, mp3 player, or cd-audio... This doesn't even get into the type of cones, voice coil formers, basket types, cabinet styles spiders, and surrounds used to develop the speaker you're relying on accurately reproducing the source signal, regardless of whether it's Digital vs. Stereo.

For CD-Audio, assuming the mastering has been done correctly, and the maximizing effects of digital haven't been overdone, you end up with something nearly as close to the original analog, without the downfalls of analog reproduction, and it's considered more or less as close to lossless as you can get without sticking with analog. You're still relying on preamps, amplifiers, EQ's, and your good old analog drivers to reproduce that digital sound. Personally, I'm all for a digital source coupled to a good powerful analog stereo arrangement.

Answer 6

well you can have digtal stereo stereo means 2 speakers your digtail receivers can decode 5.1 6.1 7.1 thx dts dolby pro dolby pro 2 they are formats that send audio to differnt speakers depending on how they depended on how they sound, george lucas hated how theaters sounded like in the seventies he had specs that he like to reproduce the sound his way and now we have thx and star wars would never be the same in stereo only