Baffled and Frustrated: Streaming/DAC Sound Issues

clearthinker

Wikepedia:    A Fourier transform (FT) is a mathematical transform ...

Oh, I understand what a Fourier Transform is, and that it's a theorem, not a theory. I understand both how it works with digital (conceptually) and I understand why the same principle applies to the squiggles in a vinyl LP. You appear to understand neither.

I am given to believe that it is impossible to remove clock error entirely.  Hence my comment that the pieces cannot be put together again correctly.

I understand that you hold certain beliefs. Digital audio is not intuitive - at least not for most of us - so it can take some understanding to reveal that belief and fact can be two different things.

Did you watch the video? it kinda blows apart your theory, doesn't it?

The reason this stuff is important is because digital audio is not perfect and if we want to improve it, we won't be successful by trying to remedy imaginary faults.

clearthinker

...the problem is caused by breaking up the analogue signal into billions of tiny fragments that cannot be correctly reassembled ... It would seem no-one can solve this - the issue is 40 years old and there is no solution in sight ...

That is not at all how digital audio works. There’s "no solution in sight" because the analog signal is not broken up "into billions of tiny fragments."

The basis of digital audio is the Fourier Transform. The theorem that makes digital audio work is the same math that describes how analog audio works. Believe it or not.

Here’s a video that actually demonstrates this.