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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flutter

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A defect affecting analog audio signal sources that rely on rotating the medium, particularly LPs and compact cassettes. Flutter is a rapid, repetitive speed variation, typically repeating at least ...

wow

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A defect affecting analog audio signal sources that rely on rotating the medium, particularly LPs and compact cassettes. Wow is a slow, repetitive speed variation, typically repeating at less than ...

loudspeaker

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A device for transforming electrical energy into acoustic energy (ie. vibrations in the air). A loudspeaker normally consists of one or more drivers, a crossover network and an enclosure.

power amplifier

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A device that increases a line level signal (typically around two volts into a high impedance) and boosts it in voltage, while allowing sufficient current to be supplied to drive low impedance ...

metadata

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A set of 'flags', or predefined digital bits, carried in a Dolby Digital bitstream that provide instructions to the decoder. They do not carry actual audio data, but guide the decoder in the ...

fast fourier transform (FFT)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A set of mathematical techniques for deriving an close approximation of the Fourier series for a real-world signal so that processing can be performed upon it. FFT is, with suitable hardware, ...

square wave

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A signal, the shape of which when displayed is, well, square. In other words, it holds to a negative value for a time equal to half the wave's period, then switches abruptly to a positive value which ...