Video:What Is a Compact Audio System?
with Curtis BabbittCompact audio systems are light and portable ways to bring your music with you conveniently. Watch this About.com video to learn more about compact audio systems and how they can work with your digital media.See Transcript
Transcript:What Is a Compact Audio System?
Hi, I'm Curtis Babbit with Hear No Evil, Westminster, Colorado. I am here on behalf of About.com to discuss what is a compact audio system.
How Compact Audio Systems Work
A compact audio system is a small amplifier, a small system that can be hooked up in conjunction with a computer, with an iPod, something that can you can use for convenience sake, lots of different applications with a compact audio system, small amplifiers, small iPod docks. Generally in conjunction with some kind of streaming capabilities, or something on-line. compact small speakers, compact portable. Something that makes it small and useful in a number of different applications.
Pros and Cons of Compact Audio Systems
The pros of a compact audio system is essentially portability, size. Something you can stick in a backpack, something you can stick in a satchel, or a briefcase, something that you can take with you, or travel with. Also the convenience of being able to stream, to hook your iPod to it, to have it as a system when you go somewhere for a group of people to listen to, those are the biggest advantages of a compact audio system.
Cons to a compact audio system, probably that it is compact. The size of the speakers are limiting to how well it can reproduce real sound, and depending on how particular you are about how you want it to sound, the compact systems have those challenges before them, obviously because of their size and power output.
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