What is the difference between digital & audio?

Question

jus wonderin

Answer 1

You probably mean digital and analog.

Something encoded digitally means that the sound waves (assumming you are talking about audio) have been translated into mathmatical representation. Because slight differences in the electronic levels won't change the information at all and because of software error correction, you don't have the same trouble with scratches and deterioration of the media it is stored on.

However, digital media is limited in range as there is a finite number of levels it can represent. The number of bits used for each sample and the number of samples per second can impact how perfectly the recording matches the original. But, once digitized it will keep on sounding the same.

Some people think that a very good analog recording sounds better but most can't tell the difference. It is true that as long as the media is very good analog will maintain more of the original sound, but usually with tapes and vinyl the media isn't that good.

Answer 2

They are in know way related. Digital just means something formed of digits. In computer world that would be 1s and 0s

Audio, is something that is audible, i.e. something that can be heard. If you put of of these things together you would have sound that has been encoded digitally, i.e. it has been turned into a bunch of computer data (1s and 0s) that a computer can understand

Answer 3

the spelling