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[hargerst]

What's a transducer?  Here's the definition:

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[Fig]

hargerst wrote on Thu, 22 December 2005 12:23

Microphones and speakers are like a dog walking on its hind legs; it's not that it's done well, it's just amazing it's done at all.

This is so true Harvey!

A day doesn't go by that I don't marvel at how a coil of wire, a magnet and a diaphragm can create an entire entertainment industry.

And the phonograph cartridge - wow!  Whodathunk?

BTW, I wonder, by the definition you quoted, are A/D and D/A convertors considered transducers?

Osci-later,

Fig

[Fibes]

Hahahahahahahahaha!



It's so like the industry...

[Brendan Thompson]

Fig wrote on Fri, 23 December 2005 07:56

BTW, I wonder, by the definition you quoted, are A/D and D/A convertors considered transducers?

Electrical energy -> Electrical energy


So no.

[Stavross]

That's it I'm getting rid of all of my transducers and transduction related paraphernalia. All MIDI from now on.

[Fig]

Brendan Thompson wrote on Fri, 23 December 2005 01:27

Fig wrote on Fri, 23 December 2005 07:56 BTW, I wonder, by the definition you quoted, are A/D and D/A convertors considered transducers? Electrical energy -> Electrical energy So no.

What about optical forms of digital streams?

Just curious.

Fig

[trebor_zaid]

I agree, it's the same with computers. When you think about all the people behind building one of those things; from design, to manufacturing, to the machines that make the machines that manufacture computers, on and on and on.

It's amazing to me a computer even works when you consider how many hands it travels through before the end user. Especially when you consider what a mistake ridden species we are.
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[wavdoctor]

I'm still having trouble grasping the cd laser light reading theory..
Damn Aliens spreading all this technology so quickly!

HB

[Tidewater]

I bought some laser goggles, now I just read direct from disk.

Digital is way better without analog.

M

[Brendan Thompson]

Fig wrote on Thu, 05 January 2006 05:09

Brendan Thompson wrote on Fri, 23 December 2005 01:27 Fig wrote on Fri, 23 December 2005 07:56 are A/D and D/A convertors considered transducers? Electrical energy -> Electrical energy So no. What about optical forms of digital streams?

Electrical energy -> Light energy -> Electrical energy

So yes.

[bounce]

Ya know this week I ran some perfectly good income through a transducer and it became outcome. The outcome was a third set of reference speakers, 2 new pm1000 channel strips and a new (used) car! Holy Cow, I transduced myself from in the black to in the grey! Yes, I want to be back in black.


Hit the sack.