Brooks M 44 Images

The squaring of the waveform that happens in the conversion of digital audio bits into analog signals.

Clipping
Distortion of a signal by its being chopped off. An overload problem caused by pushing an amplifier beyond its capabilities. The flat-topped signal has high levels of harmonic distortion which creates heat in a loudspeaker and is the major cause of loudspeaker component failure.

Brooks GS 15 First Generation
A descriptive term meaning original (as opposed to a copy).

Electret Mic
A condenser microphone where the capacitor plates are given a charge during manufacture which they retain, therefore requiring no external power supply.

Brooks Cinema TZ 505 Input Overload
Sending too high of a signal level into a device so that the first amplifier of the device overloads.

Current
The amount of electron charge passing a point in a conductor per unit of time.

Hi-Z
An abbreviation of the term High Impedance (Impedance of 5000 or more ohms).

Compact Disc Recordable CDR
A blank Compact Disc that can be recorded on one time.