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Digital voltage?

Regarding the AES/EBU output, the manual for my Theta Data Basic II transport reads: "...provides the digital standard signal in a balanced configuration and at a higher voltage level." What is the upside/downside of a higher voltage digital level? Would a higher voltage digital output level bump up the analog output level? Are there big 1's and 0's and little ones? :^)
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AES/EBU is currently called AES3.

There are a number of differences between the formats AES3 and S/SPDIF.

Voltage, impedance, max length of cable run, etc.

There is also a slight difference in the data stream.

The voltage in the AES3 case helps with the max cable length you can use.

For more information these articles are interesting:
http://www.rane.com/note149.html
http://www.proav.de/index.html?http&&&www.proav.de/data/aes-ebu.html
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