Xilikon
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The issue is that each bit must also arrive on time, relative to other bits, or samples can be potentially misinterpreted by converters. This generally isn't a problem because most jitter observed between consumer devices is deterministic and most modern consumer devices have some sort of jitter suppression.
Yeah, they're still ones and zeros. The problem isn't that they become 2s and 4s (because they can't), but there's the potential for zeros to be interpreted as ones and vice versa. Flipping a single bit is potentially audible depending on the content of the signal and its significance in the sample (if it's the most significant bit, for instance, or if it's the least significant bit).
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