Handbook for Sound Engineers

Index 1693

integrated circuits 347
Adaptive equalizers
filters and equalizers 802
Adaptors
wire and cable 417
ADAT 1443
consoles 988
Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES)
Optical disc formats 1153
AES/EBU digital audio cable
wire and cable 430
AES/EBU digital coaxial cable
wire and cable 430
AES/EBU digital peak meter
VI meters 1004
AES-10—MADI
consoles 987
AES11 1444
AES-3
consoles 986
AES3 1443, 1452
AES3 I/O 1447
AES3 receiver
digital audio interfacing and net-
works 1466, 1472
AES3 transmitter
digital audio interfacing and net-
works 1466
AES-42
consoles 986
AES42-2006 1452
AGC
optical disc formats 1143
AIFF files
optical disc formats 1135
Aiming loudspeakers
computer aided sound system
design 1374
sound system design 1263
Air flow management
heatsinks 369
Air gap
acoustical noise control 79
audio transformers 279–280
Air gap length
loudspeakers 608
Air mass
loudspeakers 635
Albert L. Thuras 9

Alcons 1396, 1398, 1400,

1404, 1408

acoustics for auditoriums and

concert halls 156–157, 159

computer aided sound system

design 1339

sound system design 1251,

1254, 1263, 1265–1267,

1272, 1274

Alessandro Volta 6

Alex Badmieff 12

Alexander Graham Bell

fiber optics 451

Algorithm development

DSP technology 1172

Algorithmic composition programs

MIDI 1123

Aliasing

delay 811

Alien crosstalk (ANEXT)

wire and cable 416

Alignment

computer aided sound system

design 1378

Alkaline-manganese batteries 698

All pass filter

filters and equalizers 796

Alloy-junction transistor

solid state devices 325

All-pass amplifier

delay 809

Alpha

solid state devices 329

transistors 329

ALS-1 interference predictions

loudspeaker clusters 649, 651

Altec 11

Altec Lansing Corp 12

Aluminum extruded heat sinks 368

AM broadcast

assistive listening systems

1551

Ambient microphones

personal monitors 1431

Ambient temperature effect

resistors 245

Ambiophony

acoustics for auditoriums and

concert halls 191

Ambrose J. Fleming 8

American Institute of Electrical En-

gineers 12

American National Standards Insti-

tute

display technologies 1579

Americans with Disabilities Act

(ADA)

Assistive listening systems

1545

Ampere

fundamentals of audio and

acoustics 32

Ampere-turns (AT)

relays 374

Amplification factor

gain structure 1227

tubes 312

Amplifier 703

active band pass filter 714

active filter 710–711

active high pass filter 714

active low pass filter 714

automatic turn-on muting 720

balanced input 711

Bessel polynomial 713

Bode diagram 705–706, 711

Butterworth polynomial

712–713

capacitor high-pass filter 720

class A output 717, 721

class AB + B output 721–722

class AB output 717, 721

class AB plus B output 717

class B output 717

class D output 717, 721, 726

class G output 723

class H output 723

class TD output 726

complementary symmetry

monolithic Darlington power

transistors 719

constant voltage distribution

716

current amplifier 703

dc-to-dc converter 725

EMI filter 724

feedback theory 707

field-effect transistors 718

fuse 719

group delay distortion 711