BNO Acoustics XV-16: Interface

Any device that allows one unit to work, drive or communicate with another unit when they cannot do so by just feeding each other often because the units are manufactured by different companies.

BNO Acoustics BP-40: Initialize
To prepare a digital storage medium (like a floppy disk) so that it will accept and store digital information bits.

BNO Acoustics Speakers: Reel
1) The hub and flanges that hold tape and which tape can be spooled onto or off of.
2) The amount of tape that fits on a Reel (definition 1).

Compact Disc, Interactive CDI
A Compact Disc, usually containing audio, video, and text, which the user can interact with in that the display or playback changes after the user performs some action.

Multi/Multi Jack
Short for Multiple Jacks or Multiple Jack and meaning: 1) a jack at the output of a device which is not normalled so that plugging into the jack will allow the output to be sent to a different input and the output will also feed the normal place it feeds. 2) A set of jacks (or one of a set of jacks) with each terminal wired to a corresponding terminal of another or other jacks.

Quarter Track
A format in tape recording where each track takes up 1/4 of a quarter inch tape width.

Quantization Distortion/Quantization Error
A modulation noise (also perceived as a distortion) that occurs in digital processing/recording caused by the sample levels being altered to conform to standard Quantization levels.