Then it's he that made what seems like the mistake... he admits he was writing that on a plane.
Before I call him a liar, and I'm not... just that he missed quite a bit of bandwidth in his mental calculations. It is my understanding that S/PDIF works in a 1 bit serial - on/off. His calculations are correct for a 44.1K/1 bit/mono signal. CD audio is 44.1/16/2, so he should be off by a factor of 32 (plus data overhead). For each CD sample, a total of 32 bits (plus overhead) are transmitted one at a time.
If someone with technical understanding of the S/PDIF standard would like to weigh in here... it IS my belief that it is a 1 bit pipe.
Bren R.
