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>No, the biggest difference is that digital is a sampled-time system, which
>means that it's subject to time aliasing (usually just called aliasing).
>It's truly a challenge to  make something sound close to it's analog
>counterpart while sampling at just above the hearing threshold (<24KHz
>bandwidth in a 48KHz system).  I was just reading an AES paper on how a
>decent peak limiter would need a 6MHz sample rate to keep aliasing noise to
>inaudible levels....  these days I guess that's a practicality, what with
>2GHz Pentiums....

What is the justification given for such a high rate? and what
exactly would one be sampling at that rate? I'm curious...

S.