Index 1773Universal Disk Format (CD-UDF)
Optical disc formats 1143
Universal mix buses
consoles 978
Universal serial bus (USB)
wire and cable 411
Universal winding
audio transformers 282
Unrelated crosstalk
consoles 919
Unshielded output transformer
audio transformers 283
Unshielded twisted pair (UTP)
digital audio interfacing and net-
works 1470
USB
consoles 988
USB microphones 556
consoles 989
User Defined Protocol (UDP)
consoles 991
V
Vacuum tubes 311
Varactor diode
solid state devices 322
Variable acoustics
acoustics for auditoriums and
concert halls 188
Variable Q
loudspeaker clusters 662
Variable Q equalizers
sound system design 1287
Variable reluctance cartridges
analog discs 1027
Variable threshold automatic micro-
phone mixers 748
Vario-acoustics
acoustics for auditoriums and
concert halls 188
Varistors (voltage-sensitive resis-
tors) 249
VCA
integrated circuits 341
VCA channel application
consoles 939
VCSEL
fiber optics 466
Velocity of propagation
wire and cable 421, 424
Vented boxes
loudspeakers 636
Vertical cavity surface emitting la-
ser (VCSEL)
fiber optics 466, 483
Vertical resonance
analog discs 1033
stylus 1033
Vertical tracking angle
analog discs 1025
Vertical woofer arrays
loudspeaker clusters 653
VGA
Wire and cable 422
VI meter
fundamentals of audio and
acoustics 36
VI meters
+4 dBu 997
-10 dBV 997
AES/EBU digital peak meter
1004
analog peak program meter
1004
attenuators 1000
average power 1006
Bit Stream Corruption 1006
British Broadcast Standard
1004
dB FS 997
dBA 997
dBC 997
dBf 997
dBm 997
dBr 997
dB-SPL 997
dBu 997
dBV 997
dbW 997
digital peak program 1004
DIN 45406 Standard 1003
DIN Scale 997
EBU standard 1005
harmonic distortion 998
loudness 1004–1005
loudness meter 1004
Nordic N9 Standard 1004
peak program 1003
persistence 1006
phase correlation meter 1004
phase error 1006power-level 1003
power-output 1003
relative loudness 1006
SMPTE 1005
spectrum analyzers 1002
surround sound analyzer
1006–1007
Vibration isolation
acoustical noise control 90
Video codecs
optical disc formats 1152
Video Graphics Array (VGA)
display technologies 1582
Video triaxial cable
Wire and cable 421
Vinyl
wire and cable 405
Virtual Local Area Network
(VLAN)
digital audio interfacing and net-
works 1496
Virtual pitch
psychoacoustics 57
Virtual reality
acoustical modeling and aural-
ization 233
Virtual sound processors
virtual systems 1446
Virtual sound systems
virtual systems 1452
Virtual Studio Technology
consoles 984
Virtual systems
active acoustics 1455
CDRW 1439
CobraNet 1443, 1447
compressors 1439, 1445
consoles 1440, 1445, 1452
crossover 1449
delay 1451
digital audio processors 1445
digitally controlled analog devic-
es 1440
digitally controlled digital audio
devices 1441
distortion 1442–1443
DSP 1440, 1443, 1447,
1451–1453
DVD 1439
dynamic processors 1439