| AC-3 | Audio Coder 3 | |
| AC ´97 | Audio Codec 1997 | |
| ADPCM | Adaptive Differential PCM | |
| AES/EBU | Audio Engineering Society
/ European Broadcasters Union | |
| AVI | Audio Video Interleaved | |
| BLER | Block Error Rate | |
| BPM | Beats per Minute | |
| CAV | Constant Angular Velocity | konstante
Umdrehungsgeschwindigkeit |
| CBR | Constant Bit Rate | konstanter
Datenstrom |
| CD | Compact Disk | |
| CD-DA | CD - Digital Audio | |
| CIRC | Cross Interleaved Reed
Salomon Code | (Fehlerkorrekturverfahren) |
| CLV | Constant Linear Velocity | |
| CSS | Content Scrambling System | (Digitaler
Verschlüsselungscode) |
| DAB | Digital Audio Broadcast | |
| DAT | Digital Audio Tape | |
| DAVIC | Digital Audio Visual
Council | |
| DAW | Digital Audio Workstation | |
| DLT | Digital Linear Tape | |
| DRC | Dynamic Range Control | |
| DSD | Direct Stream Digital | |
| DSP | Digital Sound Prozessor | |
| DTS | Digital Theater Sound | |
| DTS-EX | DTS Extended Suround | |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disc | |
| F.U.N. | Free Universe Network | |
| HiFi | High Fidelity | |
| HAVI | Home Audio Video Interoperability | |
| iDCT | inverse Diskrete Cosinus
Transformation | |
| LP | | Langspielplatte |
| LFE | Low Freqency Effects | |
| LFE | Low Freqency Enhancement | |
| LoRo | Left only, Right only | |
| LPCM | Linear Pulse Code Modulation | |
| MDM | Modular Digital Multitrack | |
| MHP | Multimedia Home Platform | |
| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital
Interface | |
| MLP | Meridian Lossless Packing | (Codierungsalgorithmus) |
| MPEG | Motion Picture Expert
Group | (Komprimierungsverfahren) |
| PCM |
Pulse Code Modulation | |
| PLL | Phase Locked Loop | |
| RMS | Root Mean Squared | |
| RPS | Right Protection System | |
| RSS | Roland Sound Space | |
| S/P-DIF | Sony/Phillips Digital
Interface | |
| SACD | Super Audio CD | |
| SCMS | Serial Copy Management
System | |
| SDDS | Sony Dynamic Digital
Sound | |
| SDMI | Secure Digital Music
Interface | (Wasserzeichen-Technologie) |
| THD | Total Harmonic Distortion | |
| THX | Tomlinson Holman Experiment | |
| UPM | | Umdrehungen pro Minute |
| VST | Virtual Sound Technology | |