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  • 21Loudness war — Different releases of Michael Jackson s song Black or White show increasing loudness over time. The loudness war or loudness race is a pejorative term for the apparent competition to digitally master and release recordings with increasing… …

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  • 22Gain compression — in an electronic amplifier circuit is a reduction in differential or slope gain caused by nonlinearity of the transfer function of the amplifying device. This nonlinearity may be caused by heat due to power dissipation, or by overdriving the… …

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  • 23Analog sound vs. digital sound — Analog sound versus digital sound compares the two ways in which sound is recorded and stored. Actual sound waves consist of continuous variations in air pressure. Representations of these signals can be recorded in either digital or analog… …

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  • 24Audio system measurements — are made for several purposes. Designers take measurements so that they can specify the performance of a piece of equipment. Maintenance engineers make them to ensure equipment is still working to specification, or to ensure that the cumulative… …

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  • 25Echo suppressor — An echo suppressor (sometimes acoustic echo suppressor / AES) is a telecommunications device used to reduce the echo heard on long telephone circuits, particularly circuits that traverse satellite links. Echo suppressors were first developed in… …

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  • 26Pickup (music technology) — For phonograph pickup, see Magnetic cartridge. For other uses, see Pickup disambiguation page. Three magnetic pickups on a Peavey Raptor with the pickup configuration of a fat strat (H S S). The bridge (right) pickup is a humbucker and the neck… …

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  • 27Dynamic range — For other uses, see Dynamic range (disambiguation). Dynamic range, abbreviated DR or DNR,[1] is the ratio between the largest and smallest possible values of a changeable quantity, such as in sound and light. It is measured as a ratio, or as a… …

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  • 28List of electronics topics — Alphabetization has been neglected in some parts of this article (the b section in particular). You can help by editing it. This is a list of communications, computers, electronic circuits, fiberoptics, microelectronics, medical electronics,… …

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  • 29Quantization (sound processing) — In signal processing, quantization is the process of approximating a continuous range of values (or a very large set of possible discrete values) by a relatively small set of discrete symbols or integer values. This article describes aspects of… …

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  • 30Diamond Cut Audio Restoration Tools — Diamond Cut Audio Resotration Tools Developer(s) Craig Maier and Rick Carlson of Diamond Cut Productions …

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