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Glossary
+4 dBu
0 dB SPL (sound pressure level)
1/3-octave
3-dB down point
3D Sound
5.1 Surround Sound
7.1 Surround Sound
7.1.4 Dolby Atmos Surround Sound
94 dB-SPL
A/B Test
A/D
Absorption
ABX Testing
Accuracy
Acoustic Impedance
Acoustic Power Output
Acoustic Suspension
Acoustic Treatments
Acoustics
Active
Active Crossover
Active Speaker
AES/EBU
All-pass filter
Alternating Current
Ambience
Ambient Noise Level
Amperes
Amplifier
Amplitude
Analog
Anechoic
AoE (Audio over Ethernet)
Architectural Speakers
Asymmetrical
Attenuate
Audio
Audio Frequency
Audiophile
Audyssey
Auro-3D®
AVB (Audio/Video Bridging)
Axisymmetric
Back-EMF (back-electromotive force)
Baffle
Balanced
Banana Plug
Band
Band-Limiting Filters
Band-Pass Filter
Bandwidth
Basket
Bass
Bass Array
Bass Management
Bass Reflex
Bass Trap
Beam Steering
BEM (Boundary Element Modeling)
Bessel Crossover
Bi-Amping
Bi-Pole (Bipolar)
Bi-Wiring
Biamplification (Same as Bi-Amping)
Binding Post
Blind Test
Bloat
Bookshelf Speaker
Boundary
Boundary Gain
Brickwall Filter
Bridging
Brightness or Bright Sound
BTL (Bridge-Tied-Load)
BTU (British Thermal Unit)
Bus
Butterworth Crossover
Butterworth Filter
Cabinet
Cabinet Resonance
Cable Management
Calibration
Cancellation
Capacitor (CAP)
Cardioid
Center Channel
Center Frequency
Channel
Chebyshev Filter
Chirp
Clipping
Coaxial
Codec
Coherence
Coloration
Comb Filter
Compliance
Compression
Compression Driver
Conductor
Cone
Congestion
Constant Directivity (CD) Horn
Constant-Q Equalizer
Convolution
Corner Frequency
Correlation
Coupling / Mutual Coupling
CPS (Cycles Per Second)
Crest Factor
Crisp
Critical Distance
Crossover for Speakers
Crossover Frequency
Crossover Slope
Crosstalk
Cumulative Spectral Decay
Cutoff Frequency
DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter)
Daisy Chain
Damping
Damping Factor
Dante
Dark / Darkness
dB (decibel)
dB/octave
DC (Direct Current)
DCAC (Digital Cinema Auto Calibration)
Dead Room
Decay
Delay
Depth
Detail
Diaphragm
Diffraction
Diffuse (Diffuser) / Diffusion
Diffuse Sound
Diffuser / Diffusor
Digital Audio
Digital Filter
Dipolar / Dipole Speaker
Dipole Bass / Dipole Subwoofer
Dirac (Dirac Live)
Direct Sound
Directivity
Discrete
Dispersion
Distortion
DIY (Do-It-Yourself)
Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos Speaker
Dolby Digital
Dolby Pro Logic
Dome Tweeter
Double Bass Array
Downmix
Driver
DSP (Digital Signal Processing)
DTS (Digital Theater Systems)
DTS:X
DTS:X Pro
Dual Subwoofer
Dynamic Driver
Dynamic EQ
Dynamic Loudspeaker
Dynamic Range
Dynamics Processing
D’Appolito
Early Reflections
EASE (Enhanced Acoustic Simulator for Engineers)
Eddy Current
Efficiency
Eigentone or Modes
Electrostatic Loudspeaker
Energy Time Curve (ETC)
Equalizer (EQ)
Euphonic
Exponential Horn
Fader
Fall Time
Far Field
Fast Subwoofer
FEA (Finite Element Analysis)
Ferrofluid
FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)
Filter
FIR (Finite Impulse Response) Filter
Flanging
Flat
Flutter Echo
Forward
Fourier Analysis
Frequency
Frequency Range
Frequency Response
Front Speakers
Fs / Fb
Full Range
Fundamental
Gain
Gauge
Graph
Graphic Equalizer
Grille (or Grill)
Ground
Ground Loop
Group Delay
Groups (Subgroup / Submix)
Haas Effect (Precedence Effect)
Handshaking
Hard Clipping
Harmonic
Harmonic Distortion
Harsh
Headroom
Height Effect Speakers
Helmholtz Resonator
HiFi (High Fidelity)
High Pass Filter
High-End Audio
Hiss
Home Theater
Horn
House Curve
HTIB (Home Theater in a Box)
Hz (Hertz)
IIR (Infinite Impulse-Response) Filter
Imaging
Immersive Sound
Impedance
Impedance Matching
Impulse Response
In-Ceiling Speakers
In-Phase
In-Wall Speakers
Incident Sound
Inductance
Infinite Baffle
Infrasonic
Input Overload Distortion
Interconnects
Interface
Interference
Intermodulation Distortion
Isolation
Isolator (also: Decoupler)
kHz (Kilohertz)
Latency
Layering
LCR (Left, Center, Right)
Levels
LFE (Low Frequency Effects)
Limiter
Line Level
Linear Distortion
Linear Phase Response
Linkwitz-Riley Crossover
Lip Sync
Listening Fatigue
Listening Style
Load
Lobing Error
Logarithm
Loop
Loudness
Loudspeaker
Loudspeaker Directivity
Low-Bass
Low-Level Detail
Low-Pass
Lush
Magnetically Shielded
Mask / Masking (Auditory Masking)
Matrix
Maximum Power Rating
MCACC (Multi-Channel Acoustic Calibration System)
Microphonics
Mid-Bass
Midrange
Millisecond (ms)
Minimum-Phase
Minimum-Phase Loudspeaker
MLP (Main Listening Position)
Modelling
Modes (Room Modes)
Monitor
Mono (Monophonic)
Motor
Muddy
Multiple Subwoofers
Multiroom Audio (also Multizone or Distributed Audio)
NC (Noise Criterion) Curves
Node
Noise
Noise Cancellation
Noise Floor
Nominal
Non-Resonant
Notch Filter
Octave
Off-Axis
Ohm (Ω)
Ohm’s Law
Omnidirectional
Openness
Out of Phase
Output
Overload
PA (Public Address System)
Paragraphic EQ
Parallel
Parameter
Parametric EQ
Passband
Passive
Passive Loudspeaker or Monitor
Passive Radiator
PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)
Peak
Peak Power
Peak Program Meter (PPM)
PFC (Power-Factor-Corrected)
Phase
Phase Cancellation
Phase Shift / Phase Delay
Pin (Pin 2 Hot)
Pink Noise
Pitch
Placement Equalization (Placement EQ)
PMPO (Peak Music Power Output or Peak Momentary Performance Output)
Point Source
Polar Pattern
Polar Plot
Polar Response
Polarity
Port
Ported Enclosure
Potentiometer (Pot)
Power
Power Amplifier
Power Compression
Power Factor (PF)
Power Output
Power Supply
Power-Factor Correction (PFC)
Powered Loudspeaker or Monitor
Powered Subwoofer
Pre-outs (Preamp Outputs)
Pre-processor (Pre-Pro)
Preamplifier (or Preamp)
Preset
Processor
Propagation
Psychoacoustics
Q
Quadratic Residue Diffuser
Rack Space
Rack Unit
Raised Cosine Filter
RCA Connector
Real-Time Analyzer (RTA)
Rear Channel
Receiver
Reflection
Resonance
Resonance Frequency
Reverb
Reverberation
Reverberation Time
RF (Radio Frequency)
Ribbon
RMS (Root Mean Square)
Roll-Off
Roll-Off Rate
Room
Room Gain
Room Mode
Satellite Speaker
SBIR (Speaker-Boundary Interference Response) or LBIR (Listener-Boundary Interference Response)
Schroeder Diffuser
Screen Channel Speakers
Sealed Enclosure/Cabinet
Sense of Presentation
Sensitivity
Shelving
Shelving Filter
Shield
Sibilant
Signal
Signal Chain
Signal Flow
Sine Wave
Single Bass Array
Skin Effect
Slap Echo
Slew Rate
Smooth
SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio)
Soft-Dome Tweeter
Sound
Sound Absorption
Sound Field
Sound Masking
Sound Reinforcement
Sound Signature
Soundproofing
Soundstage
Source
Spade Lug
Speaker (Loudspeaker)
Speaker Level
Speakon Connector
Spectrum Analyzer
Spider (a.k.a. Suspension)
Spinorama
SPL (Sound Pressure Level)
SPL Meter
Standing Wave (or Mode)
Stereo
Stopband
Streaming Service
Sub Out
Sub-Bass
Subharmonic
Subwoofer (Sub)
Subwoofer Cluster
Surround
Surround Sound
Surround Speaker
Sweet Spot
Switching Power Supply (SMPS)
Synergy
Test Tone
Texture
THD (Total Harmonic Distortion)
THX
Tweeter
Two-Way
Unbalanced
Voice Coil
Voice-Matched
Volt
VU Meter
Warmth
Waterfall Graph/Plot
Watt
Wave Field Synthesis (WFS)
Wave/Wavelength
Waveguide
Weight
White Noise
Woofer
X Curve
Xmax
Y-adapter
YPAO (Yamaha Parametric Room Acoustic Optimizer)
Zone
–10 dBV