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Cables and Interconnects
A cable, or interconnect, should be transparent to the signal traveling over it. In other words, it should pass the signal along in its pure original form and add nothing. Poor quality cabling will...
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Eliminating Hum and Ground Loops
Ground loops generally occur when there is a difference in potential between the various grounding points in a home theater system. When potentials like this occur, 60 Hz ground currents and high frequency noise can flow around the system and cause hum in both audio and video signals.
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Home Theater Audio Systems
In the early days of the movies there was just the visual image to enjoy. Motion picture technology had not yet advanced to the point where synchronized sound tracks were possible. This detail, however, did little to dampen the enthusiasm...
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Optimum Home Theater Room Dimensions
Sound is the propagation of energy that occurs longitudinally among air molecules. When a sound generator, for example, a speaker driver, pushes air molecules nearby, local molecules push other molecules and the resultant wave of excitation travels throughout airspace. You are probably familiar with...
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Video Terminology Dictionary
Glossary of terms used in video technologies. Analog to Digital Conversion. Also referred to as digitization or quantization. The conversion of an analog signal into the digital data representation of that signal--normally for subsequent use in a digital machine.
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