What is device that carries multiple channels of audio signals (such as 8, 16, 24) with XLR connectors on the ends?
100
IEM
What is a personal monitor for a performer/musician that is molded to fit their ear?
100
dynamic microphone
What is a microphone that uses a coil of wire wrapped around a magnet to convert acoustic energy to electrical energy (voltage)?
100
heat sink
What is a device that dissipates heat from an electrical circuit?
100
1126 ft/sec
What is speed of sound in air?
200
line level signal
What is the name of the signal that is typically 1.228 V rms, but can range from 100mV to 25 V rms?
200
Permanent magnet, chassis, suspension, voice coil, and diaphragm.
What are the 5 major components of a speaker?
200
condenser microphone
What is a microphone that uses a capacitor convert acoustic energy to electrical energy (voltage)?
200
vacuum tubes & transistors
What are two devices used to amplify signals in circuits?
200
frequency
What is rate of oscillation of a wave?
300
TRS connector.
What is a 1/4" connector that can carry either a balanced mono signal or a stereo unbalanced signal?
300
Coaxial driver
What is a device that contains both a high frequency and a low frequency driver aligned in such a way so that the centers of both drivers are located on the same axis?
300
passive direct box
What is a device that converts an unbalanced signal to a balanced signal using a transformer?
300
p-n junction
What is the joining of a p-type (lack of electrons) semiconductor and an n-type (excess of electrons) semiconductor?
300
middle ear
What is the portion of the ear responsible for amplifying sound and transferring it from the outer ear to the inner ear?
400
dBu or dBV
What are the units of a measurement of a voltage relative to 0.775 V RMS?
400
The two most basic components of a crossover.
What are a capacitor and an inductor?
400
supercardioid
What is a microphone pickup pattern with a high/wide sensitivity in the front, low/narrow sensitivity in the back and no sensitivity 30º off the horizontal access, towards the back?
400
full wave rectifier
What is a configuration of diodes that turns an AC signal into DC?
400
organ of corti
What is the portion of the inner ear containing hair cells responsible for hearing?
500
attentuation
What is the term to describe a loss of intensity of a signal?
500
Capacitive Reactance
What is the electrical "resistance" of a capacitor in a circuit?
500
balanced signal
What is the type of audio signal that has two conductors carrying the same (but 180º out of phase) audio signal?
500
NOT gate
What is a digital logic gate that reverses the signal from a 0 to a 1 or a 1 to a 0?
500
equal loudness curves
What is the model of how humans perceive different frequencies at different volumes?