Audio

What is audio components?

Traditionally, a sound system is comprised of three basic components: source, amplification, and speakers. These can be broken into more elemental pieces, but if you have some version of these three, you can make sound at home. Source components include turntables, computers, optical disk players like CD or BluRay, and *gasp* the Internet via streaming components like Sonos and services like Tidal and Spotify. Amplifiers take the electrical signal produced by the source, and ready it for powering your speakers. Speakers take the electrical energy put out by your source and amplifier and convert it to acoustical energy. Each component has an important role, and one cannot function without the other.