Home theatre system

Home theatre system

Of or relating to private home entertainment set-ups that seek to reproduce the cinema going experience with the help of video and audio equipment.

Industry: Consumer electronics

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receiver

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

In the stereo world, an amplifier with a tuner built in. Often used as short hand for home theater receiver.

Jitter is the phenomenon of a drift in the digital audio data delivered so that it does not precisely match the sampling frequency, causing confusion in the receiving equipment as to the appropriate ...

kb/s (or kbps)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Kilobits per second. A measure of the data flow rate for digital audio from a DVD. Stands for thousands of bits per second. Generally, the higher the number the better the quality.

tone controls

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Labelled 'bass' and 'treble', fitted to a preamplifier these provided a means of boosting or cutting the bass or treble of the signal. They typically provide up to ten decibels of boost or cut at 50 ...

hybrid loudspeakers

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Loudspeakers in which two significantly different driver technologies are used. For example (and most commonly), loudspeakers which use electrostatic panels for midrange and treble combined with ...

lfe

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Low Frequency Effects channel, sometimes imprecisely known as the subwoofer channel. This carries audio information covering frequencies up to 120 Hertz and is designed to provide a substantial ...

rumble

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Low frequency noise, usually from a turntable. Given that RIAA equalization boosts the bass signal from a cartridge by an enormous amount (17dB at 50 Hertz), the highest quality bearings and ...