Dictionary

A | B | C | D | E | F | H | I | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | V | W |

A

AC 3
Acoustic source
Audiofrequency electrolytic capacitors
Active filter
Acoustic short circuit
Amplitude
Arranging loudspeakers
Aurally compensated volume
Acoustic reflex threshold (ART)
AC resistance
Attenuation
Airborne sound
Air gap
Air-core coil

B

Bass reflex
Baffle
Basic sound wave
BL factor
Bandpass filter

C

Centre speaker
Cone
Compression
Crossover
Cabinet
Cabinet damping
Cabinet resonance frequency
Cabinet reinforcements
Cabinet struts
Capacitance
Coaxial systems
Capacitor
Cone driver

D

Directional diagram/directivity plot
Directivity
Diffraction
Dust cap
D'Appolito arrangement
Dielectric loss factor
Damping
Drive factor
Dual cone
Decoding
Dolby® Digital
Dolby® Surround Prologic
Doppler distortion
DTS
DVD
Dynamic moving mass
Driver free air resonance
Dome driver
Distortion factor
Damping in the cabinet
Diaphragm/Membrane

E

Enclosures
Equivalent volume of compliance
Energy component
Efficiency
Effect speaker
Effective diaphragm area
Electrical damping of the loudspeaker
Electrical damping due to the crossover
Electrodynamic transducer
Electrolytic capacitors
Exponential horn
Encoding

F

Full-range loudspeaker
Frequency response curve
Frequency response
Frequency response (IEC 268-5)
Ferrite coil
Ferrofluid
Frequency
Full-range

H

Horn speaker
Huygens-Fresnel theory
High-pass filter
Horn speaker/Flares

I

Impedance
Impedance equaliser
Impedance curve
Inductance
Interference
Intermodulation distortion
Isodynamic transducers

L

Low-pass filter
Leads
Laser disk

M

Metallised capacitors
Magnetostat
Mean sound pressure level
Magnet
Magnetic induction
Magnetic flux
Main speaker
Mechanical loss in the loudspeaker
Multi-channel system
Multi-driver speaker cabinets
Mean sound pressure level
MPEG-2
Music power handling

N

Nominal power handling

O

Ohmic resistance
Oktave

P

Passive filter
Phase displacement
Piezo transducer
Polar pattern
Phase plug
Pole plate/pole piece
Partial resonance
Piston area
Peak power handling

Q

Q-factors
Quality factors

R

Room acoustics
Room resonance
Reflexion
Reactive component
Radiation resistance
Resonant frequency
Rated impedance
Ribbon tweeter
Reverberation

S

Satellites
Subwoofer satellite systems
Sound waves
Sound
Sound radiation
Sound pressure
Sound pressure level
Sound field
Sound particle velocity
Sound power
Sound power
Surround
Standing waves
Subsonic filter
Subwoofer
Sinusoidal oscillation
Spider
Sensitivity
Self-resonant frequency
Slope rate
Shorting ring
Structure-borne sound
Speaker basket
Shielding against magnetic interference

T

Thiele-Small parameters
TSP
THX® 4.0
THX® 5.1
Tone
TL-speakers
Transmission line speaker
Tweeter cone
Tone

V

Velocity of sound
Voice coil
Voice coil inductance
Voice coil carrier
Vas
VHS

W

Wavelength