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| Bass | The low frequencies. Often reproduced by a subwoofer system in a home cinema entertainment system. |
| Bass Drive Unit (Woofer) | A speaker (drive unit) designed to produce bass frequencies only. In classic two-way designed speakers, the bass drive units are more accurately described as bass/midrange units. |
| Bi-amping | A separate amp channel drives each drive unit of a speaker, so a pair of two-way speakers needs two stereo amps and two runs of cable to each speake. See also: Bi-wiring |
| Bi-wiring | Some of the benefits of bi-amping but at a lower cost. You need speakers with two sets of inputs and a split crossover, then twin runs of cable from the same amplifier to each speaker. See also: Bi-amping |
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| Bit Rate | The number of bits transferred in one second by a digital device such as a CD player. |
| Black Level | Light level of the darker portions of a video image. A black level control sets the light level of the darkest portion of the video signal to match that of the display's black level capability. Black is, of course, the absence of light. Many displays, however, have as much difficulty shutting off the light in the black portions of an image as they do creating light in the brighter portions. CRT-based displays usually have better black levels than DLP, plasma, and LCD, which rank, generally, in that order. |
| Bridging an amplifier | Increasing power (up to four-fold, depending on the amplifier's power supply capability) by connecting a stereo power amp for use in mono, then adding a second 'bridged-stereo' amplifier for the other channel. This can only be achieved with amplifiers that are designed and specially built for this purpose. |
| Brightness | For video, the overall light level of the entire image. A brightness control makes an image brighter; however, when it is combined with a contrast, or white level control, the brightness control is best used to define the black level of the image (see Black Level). For audio, something referred to as bright has too much treble or high-frequency sound. |
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