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I’ll take this one.
Vinyl does not have “effectively infinite bitrate.” All sound reproductions introduce error, including analog. The question is: What •kind• of error? How much?
In the case of digital, much of the error comes in the form of •quantization noise•: the difference between the “stair step” shape of digital and the actual signal. (Good image of it here: http://davidswiston.blogspot.com/2014/11/adcs-dithering-when-adding-noise-is.html) There’s also some error that comes from circuitry etc. 1/
davidswiston.blogspot.comEngNote - ADCs & Dithering: When adding noise is a good thingThe concept of dithering seems counter-intuitive. In short, you add noise to improve performance. Why does this work, what performance are...