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The difference in electrical potential between two points in a circuit. It's the push or pressure behind current flow through a circuit.

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The amount of energy consumed when a device has resistance in its circuit. The voltage (E) set up across a resistance (R) carrying a current (I).... [Read more]

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The amount of space occupied in three dimensions (it's cubic space). In the case of enclosures, the space inside. It can also refer to the loudness... [Read more]

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Volt-Ohm-Meter. A multimeter that measures voltage, resistance (ohms), amperes, and milliamperes.

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The rear volume of a bandpass design.

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Wire to wire connection of an alarm/remote starter to bypass module.

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A listening term. The opposite of cool or analytical. In terms of frequency, generally considered the range from approximately150Hz-400Hz. A system... [Read more]

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Is the unit of power used to rate the output of audio amplifiers. For a wattage number to have meaning, the distortion level and impedance must also... [Read more]

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A single oscillation in matter (for example, a sound wave). Waves move outward from a point of disturbance, propagate through a medium, and grow... [Read more]

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The shape of a wave.

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The distance the sound wave travels to complete one cycle. The distance between one peak or crest of a sine wave and the next corresponding peak or... [Read more]

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Noise in which a constant energy level per unit (1 Hz) is maintained in all frequencies.

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A loudspeaker made to reproduce the lower range of the audio spectrum (bass), in a 2-way or more complex speaker system. A speaker, (driver), used... [Read more]

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Usually refers to the inconsistencies in tape speed that cause pitch variations and quivering sounds. Wow is slow-speed variations, and flutter is... [Read more]

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A type of connector used for balanced lines. Used for microphones, balanced audio components and the AES/EBU digital connection.

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XM Radio broadcasts 100 channels of totally new music, news, sports, and children's programming direct to cars and homes via satellite an extensive... [Read more]

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Short for Maximum Linear Excursion. It's the maximum peak linear excursion of driver, in meters. Speaker output becomes non-linear when the voice... [Read more]

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Any type of connection that splits a signal into two parts. An example would be a connector with one male RCA plug on one end, and two female RCA... [Read more]

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A wire split accessory which is used to split a single wire end into two connections.

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A prefix meaning 10-24 or 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001.

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A prefix meaning 1024 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

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Z is also known as nominal Impedance.

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A prefix meaning 10-21 or 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 001.

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A circuit in a D/A converter that monitors the digital audio bit stream. upon encountering all bits low, or zero bits, the output of the D/A is... [Read more]

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Some CD receivers feature a circuit that detects periods of no audio signal (a series of zeros in the digital bit stream) and mutes the audio output.... [Read more]