Glossary of Terms
| AAC | Advanced Audio Coding |
| ABR | Auxiliary Bass Radiator. |
| AC | Alternating current. |
| A/D | Analogue-to-digital conversion |
| AES/EBU | Audio Engineering Society/European Broadcasting Union: typically refers to a standard digital audio interface. |
| AF | Audio Frequency |
| AFL | After Fade Listen. |
| AGC | Automatic Gain Control |
| Aliasing | The generation of in-band spurious frequencies caused by using a sampling rate which is inadequate for the chosen frequency range, i.e. it is less than twice the highest frequency present in the signal. |
| AM | Amplitude Modulation |
| Amp | The unit of electrical current, named in honor of André Marie Ampère (1775–1836). |
| Anechoic Chamber | A highly absorbtive room; the walls, floor and ceiling of which are ... |
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