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The GoodSound! Glossary

The following glossary of the most-used audio terms attempts to be reasonably complete. If you don’t find an explanation for a term you don’t understand, send me an e-mail. If appropriate, I’ll add the term. With your help, this glossary will grow in usefulness for all.

The glossary is divided into sections, arranged alphabetically:

• 20Hz - 20kHz to -3dB point
  
  
• Acoustic suspension speaker to AWG
  
  
• Balanced components to Break-in
  
  
• Capacitive coupling to Crossover slope
  
  
• DAC to Dynamic loudspeaker
  
  
• Early reflections to Equalizer
  
  
• Far-field listening
  
  
• Hardwired to Hybrid amplifier
  
  
• IC to I-squared-S
  
  
• Jitter
  
  
• Law of diminishing returns to LSIC
  
  
• Main-in to Midrange
  
  
• Near-field listening to Noise floor
  
  
• Off-axis response to Output transformer
  
  
• Palpability to Preamplifier line stage
  
  
• RCA plug to Room modes
  
  
• SACD to Surface mounting
  
  
• Thermal stability to Tweeter
  
  
• Upsampling
  
  
• Variable output to Vent/port
  
  
• Wall wart to Woofer
  
  
• XLR
  
  
• Y-connector
  
  
• Zobel network