digital speakers

gadgetman
gadgetman Posts: 28
edited November 2011 in Speakers
WHO MAKES the best digital speakers .
I need advice on digital speakers
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,791
    edited September 2005
    what are... -digital- speakers?
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2005
    I second the question. I've heard of digital media, digital sources, digital media players, digital cables, etc. But what are digital speakers?

    The only way it could be digital is if it had the means to convert a digital signal into an analog signal and amplify it so as to push the speakers, since I assume a digital signal couldn't push the speakers. So, that'd make it an all-in-one, right?
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited September 2005
    Sounds like a Bose buzzphrase??? :)
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • BrentMcGhee
    BrentMcGhee Posts: 548
    edited September 2005
    nadams wrote:
    Sounds like a Bose buzzphrase??? :)

    better hope no one from bose see's this, they will just have to rush and patent that phrase and then sue this forum for using it.
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited September 2005
    I'm sure JVC will come up with something seeing how much they're pushing their new receivers because "Digital is the way of the future."
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,791
    edited September 2005
    Thats quite a bit different.

    Unless digital speakers are just ANALOG speakers with DIGITAL amps... ???
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,217
    edited September 2005
    In audio digital is a word that gets used way too often. Not only is used too often, but more times than not it's used incorrectly and completely out of context.

    A method of storing, processing and transmitting information through the use of distinct electronic or optical pulses that represent the binary digits 0 and 1. Digital transmission and switching technologies employ a sequence of discrete, distinct pulses to represent information, as opposed to the continuously variable analog signal


    Representation of quantities in discrete (quantized) units. A digital system is one in which the information is contained and manipulated as a series of discrete numbers, as opposed to an analog system, in which the information is represented as a continuous trace or curve of the quantity constituting the signal.

    Two definitions of the word digital. A speaker cannot reproduce a pure digital signal. It has to be converted to analog PERIOD. Our ears don't interpret digital impulses...they respond to the analog wave form. An analog wave form can be represented/reproduced using digital techniques, but it always need to be converted to analog as the final output.

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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited September 2005
    Give Polk a little while to come out w/ the new IP addressable in walls. Tri amped. LC 265's. NICE SOUND. Three inches of analog. Best inwall I've heard for a long time...
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  • bknauss
    bknauss Posts: 1,441
    edited September 2005
    No such thing as digital speakers. Go back to bed America! :)
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  • gadgetman
    gadgetman Posts: 28
    edited September 2005
    They' re POWER SPEAKERS YOU PLUG INTO the a/c current Without using a
    power amp.
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited September 2005
    powered speakers are far from being "digital."
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited September 2005
    Meridian digital speakers

    I remember Philips also had something like this waaaaaay back in the 80s.
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  • bknauss
    bknauss Posts: 1,441
    edited September 2005
    Maybe we should be a bit more technical... there are no such thing as "digital transducers". If you use the term speaker meaning the whole system enclosure, then there's a possibility the speaker might be digital. The Meridians above are an example... there's the Polk IP speakers with a DSP in them...
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  • dfretwell
    dfretwell Posts: 103
    edited November 2011
    Not sure what the advantages of an IP addressable speaker are. Any insight?
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,606
    edited November 2011
    ^ White van junk. Save your money.
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