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<blockquote data-quote="Amelith Nargothrond" data-source="post: 620864" data-attributes="member: 60405"><p>I never said digital speaker. I said digital equipment. It's called a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), which converts the digital sound source (say, your mp3s, flacs stored in you pc/player etc. - digital format) and convert it to an analog signal, so that the speakers can reproduce it. There are $15 DACs, like a cheap sound card, and there are $15.000 DACs, which.. well lets just say they are very good.</p><p></p><p>The DAC is the first level of an audiophile's "chain of equipments", as the signal it produces will go further down the chain, being the first source of analog signal in the chain. A DAC processed (transformed) signal (the analog signal) will travel through the amp(s), which also alter the "sound", "adding" more current & voltage so that it can power the speakers or headphones. That's the second level. The third is the speakers/headphones itself, which transform current and voltage into vibrations of the speaker's membrane, vibrations (pressure waves) which moves the air around our eardrums, which mechanically move the bones inside our middle ear, which then gets converted into electrical nerve impulses and finally reaching our brain. So we as humans are the opposite of DACs, which is ADCs (analog to digital converters - more or less, we are mechanical to digital converters).</p><p></p><p>This whole process affects the way we perceive sound. That's what makes someone an audiophile or... not. A non-audiophile will "sense/hear" no difference between a $50 dollar "chain" or a $50.000 chain (outside being occasionally louder). So it's pointless for that person to buy expensive equipment (maybe just to show off).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amelith Nargothrond, post: 620864, member: 60405"] I never said digital speaker. I said digital equipment. It's called a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), which converts the digital sound source (say, your mp3s, flacs stored in you pc/player etc. - digital format) and convert it to an analog signal, so that the speakers can reproduce it. There are $15 DACs, like a cheap sound card, and there are $15.000 DACs, which.. well lets just say they are very good. The DAC is the first level of an audiophile's "chain of equipments", as the signal it produces will go further down the chain, being the first source of analog signal in the chain. A DAC processed (transformed) signal (the analog signal) will travel through the amp(s), which also alter the "sound", "adding" more current & voltage so that it can power the speakers or headphones. That's the second level. The third is the speakers/headphones itself, which transform current and voltage into vibrations of the speaker's membrane, vibrations (pressure waves) which moves the air around our eardrums, which mechanically move the bones inside our middle ear, which then gets converted into electrical nerve impulses and finally reaching our brain. So we as humans are the opposite of DACs, which is ADCs (analog to digital converters - more or less, we are mechanical to digital converters). This whole process affects the way we perceive sound. That's what makes someone an audiophile or... not. A non-audiophile will "sense/hear" no difference between a $50 dollar "chain" or a $50.000 chain (outside being occasionally louder). So it's pointless for that person to buy expensive equipment (maybe just to show off). [/QUOTE]
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