what is the different between digital and stereo?

With the left and right channel played through a turn table, coupled to a preamp, through the EQ, fired to the amplifier, and out to the staged speakers is going give most audiophiles a good run for their money. Taking into consideration, they likely just dished out $20k + for their gear. Not to mention the phase aligning power cleaners, balanced cables, and cost to replace tubes... and the days upon days spent reorganizing their space for acoustic perfection.

Digitial on the flip side, is somewhat of a loaded word. This has been established above, and can be applied to just about anything to do with electronics. However, it could be stated that the staging effects of digital in comparison to a good 2 channel stage, directly opposed to using rear fill satellites with a full left, right, center, and the mono sub channel, just creates a mess when you're applying room acoustics to the ambient demands of music reproduction. Digital in this display gets the crap kicked out of it over stereo for ambient staging reproduction simplicity for an average system. However, for home theatre full room ambience, a good staged multi-channel arrangment runs circles around stereo.

Stereo in this respect can reproduce music wonderfully and accurately, while still producing a modest mind blowing theatre experience with a powerful enough system. Whereas, Digital systems tend to rely on the fill effects in relation to their small size to create the same ambience produced by the Stereo speakers. The problem with this, rear fill just doesn't work well hwen playing music. Nobody stands backwards at a rock concert, this is also a common problem with car audio, when people overdrive the rear fills, it dissrupts the front channels ability to create a proper stage. The result is something that sounds unnatural.