Re: Digital Speakers

[Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>]

Rich Puhek <rpuhek@etnsystems.com> writes:

> Your speakers are not digital. They may be hyped in the literature as
> "digital ready" (right next to the part where they sell you insanely
> overpriced "digital speaker wires"), but a speaker is an analog
> device. [1]

Some speakers are indeed "digital". The speaker does function in an
analog way (that's the only way a speaker can work). But the
connection between the computer and the speaker is digital. The
speaker itself contains a digital to analog (D/A) converter and
converts to analog itself. This would move the D/A converter out of
the computer case where there is noise and whatnot. Of course a
professional solution would use a D/A converter seperate from the
speakers.

The original poster may or may not have such speakers, but they do
exist.

Bijan