Walk the Walk: Audio and Video Terms
From AAD to Voice Coils (we don't have any "Z" terms yet), this glossary will break-down the alphabet soup and "audiophile-speak." Credit for some terms: TheWhippinpost, Aaron Miller, Audio Concepts
A speaker without an enclosure; also refers to the active element of a speaker system that creates compressions and rarefactions in the air.
Tue, 14 Oct, 2014 at 8:11 AM
A sound that is devoid of "juice", which usually comes across as fine grained and lean. Also a loss of reverberation as produced by a damped envi...
Tue, 14 Oct, 2014 at 8:12 AM
Direct Stream Digital. A digital encoding format proposed by Sony and Philips used to record SACD albums. DSD samples an audio signal at a fixed rate (frequ...
Tue, 14 Oct, 2014 at 8:12 AM
Digital Signal Processing. DSP can be used to create equalization, compression, etc. of a digital signal.
Tue, 14 Oct, 2014 at 8:13 AM
Digital Theater Systems. Multi-channel digital surround system that encodes and decodes audio signals enhancing the fidelity of the signal to produce high q...
Tue, 14 Oct, 2014 at 8:24 AM
An enhanced version of the 5.1 DTS system. Like Dolby's Surround EX, a sixth channel is added. In some cases (DTS ES Discrete), the sixth channel is dis...
Tue, 14 Oct, 2014 at 8:25 AM
Digital Television. Umbrella term used for the ATSC system that will eventually replace our NTSC system in 2006. HDTV is a subset of the DTV system. While t...
Tue, 14 Oct, 2014 at 8:25 AM
A voice coil with two windings, generally used in woofers. Each voice coil can be connected to a stereo channel, or both voice coils can be wired in paralle...
Tue, 14 Oct, 2014 at 8:25 AM
Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc. A relatively new standard that seeks to combine better-than-laser-disc quality video with better-than-CD quali...
Tue, 14 Oct, 2014 at 8:43 AM