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Audio Signal Transfer

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The first successful audio signal transfer was Alexander Graham Bell's telephone in 1876, which converted sound waves into a continuously varying electrical current—the same analog principle used in many hi-fi systems today.

Why this is interesting

You plug in headphones and music fills your ears—but how does that electrical signal travel from your device to your ears without losing quality, and what makes one cable sound different from another?