Julf <[email protected]> writes: > arnyk wrote: >> The standard that we finally ended up with is HDMI. The audio signals >> are kept in the digital domain as close to the speakers as it can get, >> given that the speakers are passive and analog. Being digital, it has >> better performance than any of the professional standards for analog. >> Equipment that interfaces with HDMI is generally easy to purchase and >> maintain. > > And the next step is of course TCP/IP (just look at AES67) running over > pretty much any physical media you can imagine. We are starting to see > the first active speakers with a network interface - when that becomes > more common, the sound system stack as we know it is finally gone - > replaced by controllers (mostly tablets and phones), storage/streaming > somewhere on the network (on your premises or out in the "cloud"), and > speakers.
Well - somewhere, I have to convert from digital to analog - so I need a DAC and an amplifier and a speaker. Finally, these things might be in one box (the speaker), and (*im theory*) working perfectly together, but still - isn't this again the good old transistor radio? And if this system becomes modularized, we are at the same point again, just times two: one per speaker. Rainer > > > > "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this > fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt > edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105611 > > _______________________________________________ > audiophiles mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles -- Rainer M. Krug email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de PGP: 0x0F52F982
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