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Old 11-20-2008, 10:22 AM
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The real purpose of amplifiers : to make the driver move in the way it was designed to. There MUST be some amplification for it to move at all (and make sound), that's a simple fact. Relying on a low voltage, low current amplifier built into DAPs, CD players, sound cards, etc simply won't get a strong enough signal to make the driver perform as intended. Simple
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