Depends.
If they're all encoded for transfer by electronic means(radio, fiber, wire) they'll all travel at the same speed.
But if you by audio signal mean sound in the air, then sound travels at about 700 miles an hour. A digital signal - electrical/optical - travels at the speed of light (186,282 miles per second) down a fiber network.
To have digital to audio played back it has to be changed back to analog with the use of a DAC or digital to analog converter. The DAC will take the digital signal and try to recreate it as a analog signal.
A digital audio jack serves the same purpose as an analog audio jack, only it transmits a signal that is digital (1s and 0s) instead of analog (waveform).
Yes, the microphone or line in -input converts your analog signal into digital.
Digital is an upgraded audio and visual signal. There will be a transition in the United States on February 17, 2009, where all broadcast analog signals will be converted to digital signal.
An optical audio cable is used to transmit digital audio (AC-3) signal from the source to the receiver, such as from a DVD player to a digital audio amplifier/receiver. You can transmit 5.1 dolby digital or DTS surround sound with an optical audio cable, same as digital coaxial audio cable.
A 2-channel digital audio signal, or a encoded DTS or Dolby Digital surround sound audio stream.
Yes, Focusrite audio interfaces typically have built-in preamps to boost the signal from microphones or instruments before it is converted into digital audio.
There isn't a device known as a 'timer' in digital audio, but there is a 'clock' or 'wordclock master'. This is a device (usually a rack-mount box) that sends a timing signal to several digital audio devices so that all the devices are working at precisely the same speed.
No, you cannot directly convert a 3.5mm jack (analog audio) to SPDIF (digital audio) using a simple adapter, as they are fundamentally different types of signals. However, you can use a digital audio converter that takes an analog signal from a 3.5mm jack and converts it to a digital SPDIF signal. This typically involves more than just an adapter, as it requires a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) or an audio interface with the appropriate conversion capabilities.
Digital audio recording is taking a sound and turning it into a string of numbers then rebuilding the vibration from those same numbers. The numbers are generated by direct measurement of the audio signal. Digital synthesis is where numbers are constructed or generated by multiple calculation that are based on the user input. the numbers are treated like a graph of sorts of the output waveform. The output signal is generated from this graph.
VGA to HDMI cable convert an analogue signal to a digital signal. It does this by connecting an audio cable to the adapter, where the video signal is fused with the audio also, so there is only one cable connecting to your HDTV.
If an RF signal is AM modulated with a analogue signal any noise will add or subtract to the amplitude of the RF signal and will be present in the audio signal after detection, also will the noise add itself to the audio signal, where as in digital communication a slight variation in the amplitude of the signal is of no concern because you only work with ones and zeros, it's high or it's low