Good question. The very first thing that could happen to a complete idiot is that some Digital Math Scoundrel Sharks convince the Board of Directors of a chip making company to make a silicon wafer that is supposed to do a really precise and very accurate conversion of analogue music.
Now get this, the dumb ass Board believes the Digital Math Scoundrels and funds the project, but later they come out with a piece of **** thing that only does 16-bits and is very, very slow. So slow, in fact, that even at the speed of 44.1K it's still not enough speed to do the job properly. That's a scientific fact, despite what the Digital Math Scoundrels originally claimed. They found out about this "anomally" along the way, but they decided to continue with their fraudlent scheme and just cover it up and lie about it, even to the dumb ass Board.
So the next group of complete idiots then buy into the Digital Math Scoundrels' next big lie, that now patched with band-aides stuck all over it, they now come up with 24 stinkin' bits and 96Khz....that was supposed to make it sound just as good as analogue...but guess what?...it still doesn't...but the complete idiots in the world...including the chip company's dumb ass Board of Directors...believes them...again!...opps...they all have tin ears...but some scoundrels know that outright fraud is ocurring.
Well the fraud of the Digital Math Scoundrels just continues on unabated....more lies....more hype...and more suckers....Now the new lie is that 24 bit 192Khz will fully capture real analogue music....but as we saw in earlier pages...a professior at CalTech says that's still too slow and can't capture all the frequencies of analogue music in an accurate and precise manner....but the fraud continues and the complete idiots are right there behind them defending their own dumb purchasing decisions to invest in piss poor digital sound.
So then what?
The Digital Math Scoundrels have a dialogue that goes something like this:
Digital Math Scoundrel One: "Ok fellas, we know people are not liking this brittle, lifeless, and ice cold sound from our little silicon wafers."
Digital Math Scoundrel Two: "Oh, I know...lets just tell people that these digital math models and emulations of analogue devices will fix everything...it will 'warm' the digital sound up"
Digital Math Scoundrel Three: "Great plan. We'll tell the idiots that it's exactly like the real deal analogue devices that we are trying to copy..."
Digital Math Scoundrel One: "Yeah. Don't worry...these buyers are all 'pro-sumers,' they will buy anything we say about this ****...."
Digital Math Scoundrel Two: "Why...they are such idiots... they actually believe that cheap mics made in slave labor offshore countries can actually replicate the sound of 5 to 10 thousand dollar mics..."
Digital Math Scoundrel Three: "Now we are on a roll. If they complain about the ****ty sound quality of our silicon chips...we will use our typical canned rebuttals on them...and if that does not work...we will throw math at these idiots...and convince them that they should blame themselves for the poor sound quality...that will keep the idiots confused..."
Digital Math Scoundrel One: "In the meantime...we'll all be laughing our asses off at the idiots as we play another round of golf on that fantastic island we love so much. What's that saying about a sucker born every minute?"
Digital Math Scoundrel Two: "Umm, I think that may have been PT Barnum who said that...he was a great salesman...now if he had been born later and knew just enough math...he could have joined up with us and been a Digital Math Scoundrel."
The real idiots are the people who fell for the fraud of the Digital Math Scoundrels.
Always remember:
"Math is the last refuge of scoundrels."