Timeline for Differences between "audio" and "sound"?
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| Apr 25, 2022 at 0:23 | comment | added | Thomas Eding | Audio does not need electricity. The first phonographs were purely mechanical. Also not all artificial sounds are audio. Many acoustic instruments are quite artificial (e.g. piano, saxophone, etc), yet do not generate audio. In a nutshell, audio is an simply an encoding of sound. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 12:48 | comment | added | SF. | also, sound is pretty much universally the perceptible vibration of air. Audio can travel through wires or get decoded from a memory medium. So: vocal chords -(sound)-> microphone -(audio)-> speaker -(sound)-> ear. | |
| Jan 11, 2011 at 15:51 | history | edited | user3444 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 11, 2011 at 11:35 | comment | added | John Satta | Audio is typically sound produced or amplified electronically, but not necessarily recorded or played back. The sound at live events is managed the AV (audio/visual) guys. | |
| Jan 11, 2011 at 8:17 | comment | added | psmears | Not sure why this was voted down - the usage is more complex, but as a simple rule of thumb this is OK... | |
| Jan 10, 2011 at 22:03 | history | answered | user3444 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |