audio adapter
Signal format translator
An audio adapter is a device or connector that converts audio signals between different formats, interfaces, or connection types.
It might bridge incompatible plugs—a 3.5mm headphone jack to a quarter-inch input, or USB to analog audio.
In computing, an audio adapter (or sound card) is hardware that processes digital audio for speakers or headphones: My laptop needs an audio adapter for the studio monitors.
- sound cardComputer audio interface board
- soundcardComputer audio processor
- DACHereditary membership society
- digital to analogBinary-to-waveform transformation
- converterDevice that transforms input
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