Glossary

• a

• Acoustic Space Loading
• Active or Powered Monitors
• Alan Blumlein
• Ambisonic
• Amplifier
• Amplitude
• Atmos
• Objects
• Auro 3D

• b

• Band-pass filter (BPF) 
• Bandwidth
• Bass Management
• Bass Reflex Speaker
• Binaural  
• Bit depth
• Bit rate  
• Buffer size 

• c

• C-Weighting Filter 
• Calibration 
• Cardioid 
• Channel  
• Channel-based Mixing
• Clamping force
• Clipping
• Clocking
• Closed Back Headphones
• Codec
• Coloration
• Comb-filter
• Compression (Data)
• Compression (Dynamics)
• Conductor
• Converter
• Crossfeed
• Crossover

• d

• DAC
• DAW
• dBFS
• Decibel (dB)
• Delay
• Diaphragm
• Diffraction
• Diffusion
• Digital Signal Processor (DSP) 
• Distortion
• DSD
• DTS:X
• Dynamic range

• e

• EQ
• Equilateral Triangle Method

• f

• Filter
• Flat Sound
• Fletcher Munson Loudness Curve
• Floating Point
• Frequency Response

• g

• Gain

• h

• Harmonic
• Harmonic distortion
• Head Tracking
• Headroom
• High-pass filter (HPF)
• House Curve
• HRTF

• i

• Immersive Audio 
• Impedance
• Isolation
• ITU

• k

• K System
• K-Weighting Filter

• l

• Latency 
• LFE
• Limiter
• Lossless encoding
• Lossy encoding
• Loudness
• Lowpass filter
• LUFS

• m

• Masking
• Maximizer
• Metadata
• Monitor Controller
• Mono
• Mpeg-H
• Multichannel 
• Multichannel

• n

• Nyquist Frequency
• Nyquist Theorem

• o

• Object-Based Audio
• Ohm 
• Ohm’s Law
• Omnidirectional  
• Open Back Headphones

• p

• Passive Monitors
• PCM Audio
• Peak Level
• Phantom power 
• Phase
• Phase cancellation
• Pink Noise
• Polarity (often stated incorrectly as phase)
• Power Handling
• Preamp 
• Protocol

• q

• Quadraphonic
• Quality Factor

• r

• Renderer
• Resonance 
• RMS Level
• Room modes
• RT60

• s

• Sample Peak
• Sample rate 
• Satellite speaker 
• SBIR
• Sealed Enclosure Speaker
• Sensitivity
• Signal Path / Chain  
• Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) 
• Smart Speaker
• Soffit Mounted Monitors
• 360 Reality Audio
• Soundbar
• Soundstage 
• Spatial Audio
• Speaker Calibration
• SPL
• Stereo
• Stereo Image
• Streaming
• Subwoofer  
• Surround  
• Symmetry

• t

• T20
• Target Curve
• Timbre
• Time-Alignment
• Total Harmonic Distortion (THD)  
• Translate
• Treble (highs) 
• True Peak (Inter-sample Peak)
• Tweeter

• v

• VU Meter

• w

• Wavelength 
• Weighting
• White Noise

• x

• X Curve