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GLOSSARY OF AUDIOPHILE TERMS
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Interconnects
carrying low voltage signals from the CD player say to the preamp and from the preamp to amp.Linesource
tall loudspeaker with a line of drivers or diaphragms (in the case of Ribbon) all producing the same frequencies. Tall enough to put the listener in the nearfield where there is very little room interaction. The taller the linesource, the further back the nearfield area extends. Very little floor or ceiling reflections. Radiates in a columnar form.Midrange
speaker driver reproducing middle (say speech) frequencies.Midbass driver
basically a woofer which also operates well into the lower midrange.Muddy
refers to bass and midbass where the notes are indistinct and poorly defined.Off-axis
the position relative to a line straight ahead of the diaphragm. Off-axis vertical and off-axis horizontal.Phase
time arrival of the information. Out of phase means wave is 180 degrees shifted from the in phase (ideal) wave.Planar
any flat surface diaphragm driver typically film based, electrostatic, Ribbon types.Pointsource
radiates hemispherically - as much towards the ceiling and floor as to the sidewalls and listening position.Ribbon
thin conductive diaphragm suspended in strong magnetic gap. Diaphragm vibrates when audio signal is put through it.Room acoustics
the sonic signature of a room, the frequencies it emphasizes and damps down.Soft
rolled off treble and bass producing very mellow sound but losing a lot of information.Soundstaging
effect of hearing the soundsources - instruments, singers etc. - located in specific places horizontally and in front of and behind the plane of the speakers. 3D sound localization as it would appear in a live show.Smooth response
even frequency response so that all frequencies are presented evenly, it their proper perspective.Suck out
a hole or depression in the frequency response - not as easy to detect as a boosted section of bandwidth.Tight group of curves
off axis response very close to that of the on-axis response. Ie broad horizontal dispersion giving even sound in a wide listening area.Tweaks
modifying you sound components for better performance.Transparency
ability to hear into the music. Separation of instruments, removal of "veils" from obscuring musical detail. Naturalness.Tweeter
speaker driver reproducing high frequencies.Voicing a speaker
giving a speaker a specific character. (Newform's policy is to remove character as much as possible)Woofer
speaker driver reproducing low frequencies.BACK 1 2
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