[nothis]

>We are so used to see the visual presentation of samples that look like a bar diagram, that a lot of people think analog sounds better because the curves are smoother.

Except for a philosophical debate about continuity, isn't that true?

[arundelo]

http://productionadvice.co.uk/no-stair-steps-in-digital-audi...

The “stair-steps” you see in your DAW when you zoom up on a digital waveform only exist inside the computer. [...] When digital audio is played back in the Real World, the reconstruction filter doesn’t reproduce those stair-steps – and the audio becomes truly analogue again.

[tzakrajs]

Yeah, it's strange people are thinking the display of a spectrum analyzer is somehow 1:1 with the underlying thing which they are measuring. As if a digital clock with only the hour and minutes displayed implies that seconds don't exist.

[planteen]

No, you put a low pass filter on the other side of the DAC and it looks equally smooth. Those stair steps are high frequency. This is the filter is called the image rejection or reconstruction filter. Once you learn about the frequency domain, you realize how silly most digital versus analog debates are and how very few really understand what is going on.