P Floding;187591 Wrote: > So the panasonic doesn't accept an analogue input?
Yes, for analog input, if you consider the unit as a whole, as with the T-amps, it is arguably an amplifier in the abstract sense, even though at no point does amplification actually occur internally. Internally they're an ADC connected to a DAC. jimmyfergus Wrote: > The Panasonic and its ilk, on the other hand, *with digital input*, I > think is not an amplifier in any sense However, I was talking about digital input, as I said. Whether you consider it as an abstract whole, of you look at its internals, it's a DAC with no amplifiers involved. In film photography, when you take a negative and made a print, you use an "enlarger". If you scanned a photo and printed it on your printer, is it accurate to call your scanner + computer + printer an "enlarger"? Now use a digital camera; again, is it an "enlarger"? If so, the Panasonic (need I say, -with digital input-) is an amplifier. Just because the end result is the same, it doesn't make the tools which achieve it equivalent. The system which takes digital audio encoding and produces sound is not an amplifier - it typically -includes- an amplifier. That does not mean that all processes which produce sound from digital encodings must use amplifiers. -- 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
