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Altec Lansing. Altec Lansing, Inc. is an American audio electronics company founded in 1927. [ 4 ] Their primary products are loudspeakers and associated audio electronics for professional, home, automotive and multimedia applications. [ 5 ] Engineers at Western Electric, who later formed Altec Services Company, developed the technology for ...
Echo suppression and echo cancellation are methods used in telephony to improve voice quality by preventing echo from being created or removing it after it is already present. In addition to improving subjective audio quality, echo suppression increases the capacity achieved through silence suppression by preventing echo from traveling across a ...
Phantom power. Phantom power button and indicator light. Phantom power, in the context of professional audio equipment, is DC electric power equally applied to both signal wires in balanced microphone cables, forming a phantom circuit, to operate microphones that contain active electronic circuitry. [ 1] It is best known as a convenient power ...
John Kenneth Hilliard (October 1901 – March 21, 1989) was an American acoustical and electrical engineer who pioneered a number of important loudspeaker concepts and designs. He helped develop the practical use of recording sound for film and won an Academy Award in 1935. He designed movie theater sound systems, and he worked on radar as well ...
Tube sound. Vacuum tubes glowing inside the preamp section of a modern guitar amplifier. Tube sound (or valve sound) is the characteristic sound associated with a vacuum tube amplifier (valve amplifier in British English), a vacuum tube -based audio amplifier. [ 1] At first, the concept of tube sound did not exist, because practically all ...
The phase plug is shown in dark purple. In a loudspeaker, a phase plug, phasing plug or acoustical transformer is a mechanical interface between a speaker driver and the audience. The phase plug extends high frequency response because it guides waves outward toward the listener rather than allowing them to interact destructively near the driver.
Microphone. Shure Brothers microphone, model 55S, multi-impedance "Small Unidyne" dynamic from 1951. A microphone, colloquially called a mic ( / maɪk / ), [ 1] or mike, [ a] is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.
Pro audio, microphones, sound equipment. Owner. DAS Companies, Omnitronics. Website. www.cadaudio.com. The Astatic Corporation is a commercial audio products manufacturer founded in Youngstown, Ohio in 1933. Astatic formed CAD Professional Microphones in 1988 as a division of Astatic. The company reorganized as Omnitronics LLC in 2000, and ...