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But the whole point of the digital signal is that it is the same signal over any wire and remains digital, not analog, until it gets to the receiver. Breaking it down to one's and zero's is not, I repeat not and oversimplification. This is the essential part. The only time the signal is in analog form is once it gets into your receiver and is sent down the speaker wire to your speakers. Until it gets into your receiver, it is the exact same digital signal on any wire. When you shop for a hard drive, do you worry about the quality of the platter media? No, of course not. Does the quality of the platter media make the colors on your monitor more vibrant or deeper? No, of course not. The analog color display is totally dependent on the quality of the digital to analog conversion done by your video card. In the same respect, the quality of the digital to analog conversion in your HT setup is totally dependent on your receiver. Does the quality of the platter media make your word documents on it better in any way? Obviously no. All this applies to the transmission of digital signals on wires, not analog. Hence, I'm not talking about speaker wire. That is a whole other arguement. But anyway, back to the arguement at hand. The reason that digital is used in all kinds of things today is to get exactly all of an original source. The quality of the cable does not affect the quality of the one's and zero's. The 'di' in digital means two, as in binary. Black and white. On and off. There is no in between. Your cable quality won't make you get gray's. It's not possible. The only way to disturb the transmission is with a lack of bandwidth. You ever see the ugly jaggies and pixelization that accompany an mpeg transsmission when it's bandwidth can't keep up? Very noticeable. Very obvious. The same goes for an audio digital signal. You're either getting all of it or obviously getting a partial version. When you talk about the difference in quality of CD and DVD players, you must be talking about the difference in quality of the DAC (digital to analog converters). I whole heartedly will agree that those can vary in quality. But not digital. That's the whole point. It's digital; same exact copy, everytime.
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