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Originally posted by cronodevir I mean, the "signal" its a string of 1's and 0's though, not electricity? Thus the reason software sounds different than hardware [this was my assumption]

Ones and Zeros calculated to create a sample, if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah that is what 8bit 16bit etc etc refer to, how many 1's and 0's in a string. 32bit wav file uses 32 numbers in every string.

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Originally posted by cronodevir I mean, the "signal" its a string of 1's and 0's though, not electricity? Thus the reason software sounds different than hardware [this was my assumption]

Uh... yeah, it's stored in the hardware registers as a "string of 1s and 0s" but it's read and written as integers or floats. And because it's interpolated by a DAC on the way out, it really doesn't sound different unless the sampling rate or bit depth are really low.

The "string of bits" is called a "word" and is just a regular number in base 2.

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