Meridian Audio Stereo System manual Glossary

Glossary

AAC

Advanced Audio Coding, an audio compression system incorporated into the MPEG standard and used for encoding audio broadcasts in some territories.

Absolute phase

A control that changes the phase of the signals to all the speakers. Can alter the ambience and bass impact for some material.

AC-3

An alternative name for the Dolby Digital format.

Ambisonics

A music encoding and decoding system designed to re-create the original sound field using an array of loudspeakers.

Compress

A DSP parameter providing dynamic range control for Dolby Digital sources.

Dolby Digital

A digital surround-sound format which provides five full-frequency-range channels (left, centre, right, left surround, and right surround) and an additional Low Frequency Effects (LFE) channel which is band-limited to 120Hz.

Dolby Surround

The encoding system used for the majority of movies on video and many TV broadcasts. Dolby Surround encoded material can be replayed with a surround decoder connected to an array of loudspeakers, which normally include at least left, centre, right, and rear surround.

DSP preset

A sound processing option. You can create user-defined DSP presets based on the built-in presets, and with specific DSP parameter values.

DTS

Digital Theatre Systems originally produced digital audio tracks for motion pictures.

A version of this format adapted for consumer video and audio products is referred to as DTS. Like Dolby Digital it provides five full-frequency-range channels (left, centre, right, left surround, and right surround) and an additional Low Frequency Effects (LFE) channel.

DVD

Digital Versatile Disc, a CD-sized disc with nearly 30 times the storage capacity of CD. It is capable of storing digital video, high- quality multichannel audio, or computer data.

DVD-Audio

A DVD disc containing audio tracks in one or more of a number of alternative formats to provide higher quality or higher capacity than CD, and multichannel audio, together with the option of still images or video.

A DVD-Audio disc may also include lower quality versions of the material in DVD- Video format for compatibility with players that do not support DVD-Audio.

DVD-Video

A DVD containing video titles together with one or more soundtracks, menus, and other entertainment features.

Home

The standard set of soft keys for a G Series product.

IR Controller

The product in a Meridian system that has been configured to receive infra-red signals, and where appropriate send them to other products in the system.

Layout

Refers to a particular arrangement of speakers and subwoofers. You can select different layouts for the Logic, Music, and 5.1 Movie DSP presets.

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