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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.
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moving coil cartridge (MC cartridge)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A magnetic cartridge in which the stylus moves a coil via the cantilever, while the magnet is fixed in position. Moving coil cartridges tend to have lower moving mass than moving magnet cartridges, ...
moving magnet cartridge (MM cartridge)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A magnetic cartridge in which the stylus moves a magnet via the cantilever, while the coil is fixed in position. Moving magnet cartridges tend to have a higher output than moving coil cartridges, but ...
megahertz (mHz)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A measure of frequency which refers to millions of cycles per second, for example a processor running at 500 MHz can handle 500 Million cycles per second. 1 MHz is equal to 1,000,000 Hz. Hertz is ...
frequency response
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A measure of how accurately a system reproduces different frequencies. In the case of audio in a home theater system, it is desirable for the frequency response of a whole system, including speakers ...
gigabyte
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A measure of memory storage, a gigabyte equals (ie. 1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024 or 230) bytes, 1,048,576 (ie. 1,024 x 1,024 or 220) kilobytes or 1,024 megabytes. However, if used as a measure of hard disk ...
kilobyte (kb)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A measure of memory storage, a kilobyte equals 1,024 (ie. 210) bytes.
megabyte (mb)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A measure of memory storage, a megabyte equals 1,024 kilobytes or 1,048,576 bytes. However, if used as a measure of hard disk storage, the 'mega' prefix normally means a round million.
