This post focuses on digital sync between PCM digital audio devices.
Digital has been marketed and is generally understood to be bit-for-bit perfect, resilient to noise, and able to be copied infinitely without any reduction of quality. This is true… to a point. Digital audio is essentially data, reinterpreted as audible information. But, underneath all the simplicity of the digital medium lies quite an elaborate system of error correction and synchronization. Did you know that the hard drive in your computer routinely has data errors? There’s software running in your computer that looks for these errors and corrects them as the drive is accessed. Digital is a balancing act and the goal is to have it all balance out to zero errors.
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