XBR Squared, referring to the Sony KV-32XBR100, a 32 inch tube NTSC TV widely regarded as the best television of its type ever produced. The KV-32XBR100 carried its tuner and input connections in an external box had a tube that was almost perfectly flat in the front. It was introduced in 1994 and sold for over $3,000 at the time (remarkable considering the same sum gets you a very large HDTV in 2007.)
Designation for Sony’s high-end, top-quality television offerings. For a brief time the XBR line was not the top Sony television offering, that honor going to the short-lived Sony Qualia line. See Qualia.
Specification used to describe speed variations. As digital components can reproduce sound with little or no variation, wow and flutter is mostly used with analog devices such as tape decks and turntables.
Low-frequency driver in a loudspeaker. Name is derived from “woof,” the low-pitched sound of a dog barking.
