You use them everyday.
But do you actually understand them?
The music on your phone isn't actual sound yet—it's a digital file made of millions of numbers.
Using bluetooth, your phone turns that data of numbers into invisible radio signals or electromagnetic waves. Inside your headphone is another bluetooth chip with an antena that listens for those specific radio patterns and receives data.
The same chip converts and decompresses those radio signals back into digital audio.
The digital audio becomes an electrical signal that powers and moves the tiny speaker inside the headphone back and forth, pushing the air.
The moving air creates sound waves that vibrate your eardrum, and your brain interprets those vibrations as music.
From Data · To Sound