Terms?

[Popcorn Lover]

Where do I learn about all the modern audio terms?

I need to buy a receiver for bedroom DVD surround sound and don't know what
all the terms mean, like "home theater", "dolby digital" etc. I want the
nicest surround sound that I can afford, which ain't much.

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"Popcorn Lover" > wrote in message
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> Where do I learn about all the modern audio terms?
>
> I need to buy a receiver for bedroom DVD surround sound and don't
> know what all the terms mean, like "home theater", "dolby digital"
> etc. I want the nicest surround sound that I can afford, which ain't
> much.

Please check out

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/AudioFAQ/

[Todd H.]

Popcorn Lover > writes:

> Where do I learn about all the modern audio terms?
>
> I need to buy a receiver for bedroom DVD surround sound and don't know what
> all the terms mean, like "home theater", "dolby digital" etc. I want the
> nicest surround sound that I can afford, which ain't much.

Crutchfield.com on their website and in their print catalog actually
does a fairly decent job at explaining these things in layman's
terms.

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[TCS]

On 04 Nov 2003 09:57:48 -0600, Todd H. > wrote:
> Popcorn Lover > writes:
>
>> Where do I learn about all the modern audio terms?
>>
>> I need to buy a receiver for bedroom DVD surround sound and don't know what
>> all the terms mean, like "home theater", "dolby digital" etc. I want the
>> nicest surround sound that I can afford, which ain't much.
>
> Crutchfield.com on their website and in their print catalog actually
> does a fairly decent job at explaining these things in layman's
> terms.

Most of the time. Crutchfield frequently passes along incorrect
definitions like they used to say that "oversampling" is when a CD player
reads the data multiple times and takes an average.