Short answer: yes.
If you want to get a better grasp of the process you would need to understand the basic concepts of ANALOG and DIGITAL. Sampling is the process that takes you from Analog to Digital. You take a "sample" of an analog event and turn it into a number, a digit. This is sampling.
There are 2 key elemnts to how sampling is done: how often do you take the sample and how precisely you do that. The Red Book audio standard (the one CDs are made out of) calls for samples to be done 44.100 times a second and with a precision of 16 bits. So within those boudaries you can build an excat replica of the input signal by any mean, including the Monkey you mention. This is what would be called "bit perfect" in that the bits are exactly copied. The copy the monkey would have made would be absolutely non recognizable form the original and if played on the same playback system would sound 100% the same.
There are many misconceptins around, I'll mention a few:
QUITE The encoded data - the pits and lands do not actually represent digital data, not really UNQUOTE
Yes they absolutely do !
QUOTE The series of pits and lands, their various lengths and the transitions from pits to lands and lands to pits are converted to meaningful digital data downstream. So, since the lengths of pits and lands is variable precise timing is critical ... UNQUOTE
Precise timing is indeed critical in that the samples need to be payed back at exactly 44.1 KHz. But that is implicit in the standard, NOT HARDCODED in the digital domain !
BTW your it's an intersting question
You can start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(signal_processing)
And spend more or less the rest of your life digging ! Enjoy !
Mark.
If you want to get a better grasp of the process you would need to understand the basic concepts of ANALOG and DIGITAL. Sampling is the process that takes you from Analog to Digital. You take a "sample" of an analog event and turn it into a number, a digit. This is sampling.
There are 2 key elemnts to how sampling is done: how often do you take the sample and how precisely you do that. The Red Book audio standard (the one CDs are made out of) calls for samples to be done 44.100 times a second and with a precision of 16 bits. So within those boudaries you can build an excat replica of the input signal by any mean, including the Monkey you mention. This is what would be called "bit perfect" in that the bits are exactly copied. The copy the monkey would have made would be absolutely non recognizable form the original and if played on the same playback system would sound 100% the same.
There are many misconceptins around, I'll mention a few:
QUITE The encoded data - the pits and lands do not actually represent digital data, not really UNQUOTE
Yes they absolutely do !
QUOTE The series of pits and lands, their various lengths and the transitions from pits to lands and lands to pits are converted to meaningful digital data downstream. So, since the lengths of pits and lands is variable precise timing is critical ... UNQUOTE
Precise timing is indeed critical in that the samples need to be payed back at exactly 44.1 KHz. But that is implicit in the standard, NOT HARDCODED in the digital domain !
BTW your it's an intersting question
You can start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(signal_processing)
And spend more or less the rest of your life digging ! Enjoy !
Mark.