P Floding;187587 Wrote: > Anything that "amplifies" is an amplifier, no matter how it's done. So, > yes, they are all amplifiers.
Nothing in the Panasonic "amplifies"... The direct output of a DAC in the Panasonic is connected to speakers. There is no point, buried within a chip or in an external component, where a low level analog signal is converted into a higher level one. Unless digital to analog conversion is a form of amplification? It seems more akin to transduction to me. If it's an amplifier, then so is a relay. If taking a binary signal and producing a mathematically equivalent binary signal with a different voltage is amplification, then yes, it is an amplifier and a CPU is full of amplifiers. Perhaps a calculator is also then an amplifier, when you use the multiplication key... -- jimmyfergus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jimmyfergus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33112 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
