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

Add a new term

Contributors in Home theatre system

Become a Contributors

Home theatre system

separation

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A measure of the degree to which leakage from one channel of sound to another channel (crosstalk) is limited. This is typically measured in decibels (eg. -90dB at 1kHz). While great emphasis is ...

sensitivity

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A measure of the efficiency with which loudspeakers turn the electrical energy provided by a power amplifier into acoustic energy. The more sensitive, the greater the volume for a given amount of ...

sound pressure level (SPL)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A measure of volume or loudness in decibels. 0dBSPL is the quietest that can be heard. A rock concert may produce up to 120dBSPL. The threshold of pain is a little above this. Hearing damage is a ...

optical digital

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A method of communicating digital audio between components using light carried on optical fibre. See TOS. The data format accords with the S/PDIF specification.

midrange driver

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A middle-sized driver designed to reproduce the important midrange frequencies between the bass and treble notes. If this is omitted, the loudspeaker is called 'two-way'. If present, along with a ...

sound stage

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A movie set where audio is recorded along with video. But in the home entertainment context, the sound stage is area between a pair of stereo speakers from which they appear to make the various ...

home theater receiver

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A multichannel amplifier with a digital decoder and tuner built in. The decoder always provides at least PCM and Dolby Digital decoding, and almost always DTS as well. A few also incorporate MPEG ...