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10 definitions for B
Balanced connections : Balanced connections have both positive and negative wires shielded, for less interferance. Normal connections use the negative as a shield for the positive, but this is not the case with balanced connections.
Bass : These are the low frequencies that cause "booms" and "rumbles". It is sometimes difficult to reproduce because the speakers tend to move a lot with bass. This can cause a non-clean sound, and can also dominate the music and cause distortion.
Bass Reflex : A speaker design using air-flow from a port in the cabinet to help low frequencies. "Bass Ports" tend to help enhance the bass response of a speaker as well.
Biamping : Each individual drive unit of a speaker is powered by a separate amplifier channel. A pair of two-way speakers needs two stereo amps, and two runs of cable to each speaker. Also see biwiring.
Binding Post : A threaded speaker terminal for gripping bare wires. They sometimes also have sockets for banana plugs too.
Bit : A single piece of digital information, basically an 'on/off' signal. Many of these in sequence can make up the data of a sine wave or a song. DACs turn strings of bits into audio signals. See also DAC.
Bitstream : A method of turning digital audio data into analogue signals. Bitstream DACs process single bits of digital data much faster than multibit DACs, which work on whole chunks of digital data at a time. See also DAC.
Biwiring : A simpler, cheaper equivalent of biamping. Each speaker must have 2 pairs of inputs. You send two cables from the amplifier to each speaker, therefore powering each driver unit separately, but from the same channel on the amp. See also Biamping.
Boomy : The smearing of transients that makes bass reproduction sound muddled, usually because of improperly designed sealed (to small), ported (to small or tuned improperly), and bandpass enclosures, although the latter are sometimes designed this way on purpose by car audio manufacturers or install shops to be loud.
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Bridging : When you connect two stereo power amps together, both for use in mono, this increases power, and is called "bridging". Each stereo amp powers one channel of sound, and power typically triples. However, the amps must be designed for bridging in the first place.
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