8 Terms
Home > Industry/Domain > Consumer electronics > Home theatre system
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.
Industry: Consumer electronics
Add a new termContributors in Home theatre system
Home theatre system
Brick and mortar (B & m)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A retail electronics store/building generally built out of brick and mortar. Generally used to indicate that the store is not an online store or that the store has a physical building in addition to ...
Clocking signal
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A signal used to synchronise items of equipment which are communicating digital audio or video signals to each other. The lack of a suitable clocking signal would allow their timing to drift apart ...
Carrier
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A sine wave which may be modulated by a signal to form an AM signal. The frequency of the carrier must be significantly higher than that of the modulating signal. In practice, the carrier is usually ...
Crossover distortion
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A small discontinuity (or, at least, nonlinearity) in a signal when a transistor-based amplifier circuit switches from positive to negative operation. This is addressed by Class A and Class A/B ...
Direct sound field
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A speaker system in which the great majority of the sound that you hear is coming directly from the loudspeakers, and very little from reflections from surfaces within the listening space. Direct ...
Bass extension
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An imprecise term concerning how low in frequency a loudspeaker or subwoofer can still operate to produce usable output. A typical bookshelf-sized speaker may manage a bass extension of 80 Hertz ...
Distortion
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An inaccuracy in the reproduction of a signal. In the case of audio, it is normally regarded as being composed of harmonic distortion and intermodulation distortion. But used more broadly, it can ...
