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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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reverberant sound field
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A speaker system in which a significant amount, perhaps most, of the sound that you hear is coming from reflections from surfaces within the listening space rather that directly from the ...
signal to noise ratio
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A specification for the level of noise produced by a system. This is normally expressed in the decibel difference between the measured noise and some reference signal.
nominal impedance
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A specification of the load a loudspeaker places on an amplifier, measured in ohms. It tends to oversimplify the actual situation because the impedance of a loudspeaker varies according to frequency. ...
tweak
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A subtle change to a home entertainment system intended to improve the sound. This could range from merely adjusting the system's controls, through replacing cables and experimenting with speaker ...
passive subwoofer
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A subwoofer without built-in amplification. Most subwoofers are active, not passive.
region code
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A system built into DVDs that is intended to prevent the playback of DVDs from one part of the world in DVD players sold in another part of the world. There are six region codes. The United States in ...
noise shaping
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A system of adding dither noise to a digital audio signal so that it is biased towards high frequency noise. This permits the noise floor to be lower in the range of frequencies to which the ear is ...
