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Audio Crossword Answers (June 2013)

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The answers to AudioXpress’  June audio crossword puzzle are now available.

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1.    CONSONANCE—Repetitive
3.    TRIGGERDIODE—A DIAC [two words]
4.    RADECHON—Barrier-grid storage tube
8.    WATERFALLPLOT—Cumulative spectral delay [two words]
9.    WINDING—Coiled material
12.    PHASEINVERTER—Two outputs created from a single input, one is identical to the original and the other is a mirror image [two words]
14.    TFTDISPLAY—Uses little electricity and provides a clear flat-screen display [two words]
15.    BIFILAR—Used in bipolar power-supply transformers to improve output voltage symmetry
17.    WALSHDRIVER—Inherently omnidirectional [two words]
18.    DARLINGTON—Resistor type that uses a shared collector
19.    FORWARDBIAS—Voltage applied to a semiconductor’s controlling element [two words]

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1.    CODEC—Converts analog signal to digital and the digital signals back to analog
2.    BRANDENBURG—Audio engineer who has contributed to the MPEG Audio Layer 3audio compression format
5.    HARRIESVALVE—Eliminates a tetrode’s kink [two words]
6.    POWERPENTODES—The EL34, the 6CL6, and the 6K6GT are examples of these tube types [two words]
7.    PINCH—It was the early tube’s central part. Lead-in wires were fed through and it mechanically supported the electrode system.
10.    LINESOURCE—A true one extends from floor to ceiling [two words]
11.    SEISMIC—Floor-shaking bass reproduction
13.    SURFACENOISE—aka, needle scratch [two words]
16.    GLITCH—Brief transient spike

 

Audio Crossword Answers (March 2013)

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The answers to AudioXpress’ March audio crossword puzzle are now available.

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5.    CERAMICPLATE—Capacitor type used due to its low inductance and low cost [two words]
6.    BUTTERWORTH—Produces a maximally flat amplitude response
11.    SUSPENSIONSYSTEM—A loudspeaker’s weakest mechanical part [two words]
13.    GASSY—Tube types that can draw excess current and generate static in the output signal
14.    HAPTIC—Sense of touch
16.    SHORTED—Power transformer that has a metallic or burnt varnish smell
17.    KLYSTRON—Used as an oscillator
18.    STRUCK—CJS Labs’ CEO and chief scientist
19.    COCHLEA—Senses vibration
20.    TRANSCONDUCTANCE—GM

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1.    ACOUSTICRESEARCH—Company credited with being the first to commercialize the dome tweeter [two words]
2.    SYNCHRONOUSAVERAGING—Analyzes the vibration signature of rotating machines or gearboxes [two words]
3.    VACUUMTUBE—Makes amplification and radio possible [two words]
4.    TWEETER—An electrodynamic driver
7.    CROSSOVERNETWORK—Single-driver speakers cancel the need for it [two words]
8.    NOISECANCELLATION—Eliminates out-of-phase information [two words]
9.    RECTIFIER—Passes current in only one direction
10.    PINK—Noise with a continuous frequency spectrum and equal power per constant percentage bandwidth
12.    MASERATI—Recently teamed with Bowers & Wilkins to make limited-edition, co-branded audio products
15.    PRESBYCUSIS—Causes include noise exposure and aging

Audio Crossword Answers (February 2013)

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The answers to AudioXpress’ February audio crossword puzzle are now available.

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1.    DISTRIBUTEDMODE—A loudspeaker that is not typically capable of the high sound levels required for performance audio systems [two words]
3.    FEEDBACK—A capacitor used in an op-amp circuit
4.    INTERFACE—An electrical circuit that links more than one device
6.    CROSSTALK—Caused when one circuit’s signal creates an unwanted effect on another
8.    TACTILETRANSDUCER—Converts electrical signal into vibration [two words]
10.    DIRECTIVITY—An acoustic source’s behavior in a 3-D space
12.    FERRITE—A magnetic material used in a driver’s construction
13.    PIEZOELECTRIC—Charge that builds up in certain material due to mechanical stress
15.    THREEDIMENSIONAL—An acoustic passive radiator diaphragm trait [two words]
16.    HAFLERCIRCUIT—Mimics matrix decoding’s effects without using expensive electronics [two words]
17.    OEB—An Italian loudspeaker component supplier
18.    LINEARRAYS—Speakers with a horizontal directivity equal to that of each driver [two words]
19.    PATENTAPPLICATION—New inventions are published in this journal [two words]
20.    HUMREDUCTION—Use a bridge rectifier driven from an 8- to 12-V transformer winding, a capacitive filter, and a three-terminal IC voltage regulator to achieve this [two words]

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2.    BLEEDER—A resistor that draws the critical amount of load current
5.    FILAMENTS—Often supplied by AC voltage from a transformer winding
7.    SHUNTREGULATOR—Stabilizes voltage fluctuations [two words]
9.    SURFACEMOUNTED—Method that places components directly on PCBs [two words]
11.    INCOMINGSTEREO—A signal that is detected by “true” sound decoders [two words]
14.    OSCILLATION—Doesn’t remain in one place

Audio Crossword Answers (September 2012)

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The answers to the crossword puzzle published in audioXpress September 2012 are below. The issue is now available. 

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2.     BOOMY—A type of vibration that occurs if the speaker is not well damped by either the amps output circuit or the particular installation

5.     CONECRY—Notes or tones that are higher or lower in frequency than the intended note [two words]

6.     PI—The name Robert Nance Dee gave the pre-amplifier interface design in his audioXpress article (August 2012)

10.   AGGRESSIVE—Usually indicative of a lightweight, low-mass cone structure and a large magnet

11.   SCANSPEAK—In recent months, columnist Vance Dickason has put a number of high-end audio drivers from this Danish company to the test [two words]

14.   CASPER—This audioXpress contributor shared an easy-to-build amplifier for computer speakers in the November 2011 issue

16.   PRESENCENOTCH—The major fundamental resonance of a loudspeaker, which is mainly determined by the spider and the mass of the cone [two words]

17.   BREAKUP—Comb filtering and other anomalies that create the texture of the overall sound

18.   NEODYMIUM—A material used for the rare-earth magnets

19.   RAREFACTION—That phase of a sound wave during which the air pressure is below the normal atmospheric pressure

20.   PASS—In the January 2012 issue of audioXpress, this contributor described his modification to the JBL L300 loudspeakers

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1.     HONKING—A peaked 800 to 1200 Hz midrange that is up several decibels from the low end

3.     OUTPUTTRANSISTORS—In his October 2011 audioXpress article, “Upgrading the Phase Linear 200 Amplifier,” Patrick Brunner recommended changing these for higher gain [two words]

4.     ELECTROSTATIC—The “unique beam-splitter bass cabinet” was the twist in Charlie Mimbs’ construction of this type of hybrid-style loudspeakers (audioXpress, April 2012).

7.     VOICECOILRUB—Usually occurs after too much power is applied to a speaker for too long [three words]

8.     BELLMODES—The many minor resonances and new frequencies that result in response to the input signal when the speaker cone vibrates [two words]

9.     LIS—Our annual directory, which provides information on industry trends, speaker parts, and resources as well as components, software, and test equipment

12.   SURROUND—The area out at the periphery of the cone that usually has one to three corrugations

13.   THEPANHEADS—In the March 2012 issue of audioXpress, David Pellegrene shared this innovative speaker design that resembles a Harley-Davidson engine [two words]

15.   GAPENERGY—Measured by the Gaussmeter [two words]