Poem: "Realia"

I remember I used that idea at one point - once I learned a bit about signalling. And, of course, realized that words can't capture everything, just like a digital sampling can't perfectly capture an analog wave.

"Analog is the limit as info hits infinity" just popped into my brain.
(NB: Nothing to do with your poem - that idea just popped into my head as a new thought that may or may not be of any use or interest to anyone :-). But at first, I was thinking of the infinite information needed to *perfectly* hold an analog wave, and then, the infinite information needed to explain that wave, if it was the sound of an aria, that spoke of some noble ideal, and then the further layers of infinity needed to explain why that ideal stirred the emotions to the point that an aria was a good way to express it....)

The digital mapping could certainly do that - if you've ever learned (or seen an explanation of) Reimann integration, it's the same sort of thing. You're taking a curvy sound wave and approximating it with rectangles (essentially).

With the speakerphone, there can be two things going on: noise cancellation, and the analog-to-digital mapping. And, of course, you can have the two interfering with each other.

CDs try to be "perfect" by having double the frequency that the ordinary human ear can hear, and it's pretty good, but I hear-tell a lot of audiophiles say that they can hear a clear difference.

Ooh! May I add that last sentence to my quote file? And if so, how would you like to be attributed?