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Header: In computers and digital audio a header is a unit of information that precedes a data object. In file management, for example, a header is a region at the beginning of each file where bookkeeping information is kept. The header may contain the date the file was created, the date it was last updated, the file's size, the sample rate, bit depth, whether it's stereo or mono, or any other information that may be important to the system. The header can generally only be accessed by the operating system or by specialized programs and usually their format and content conforms to some standard. For example, one of the major differences between S/PDIF and AES/EBU digital audio signals is the information contained in their headers.

Haas Effect	Half-Track	Half Damper
Half Duplex	Half Normal	Half-Power Bandwidth
Half Space	Half Step	Hammer-On
Hammer Action	Handling Noise	Handshake
Hangover	Hangover	Hang Tag
Hard Bop	Hard Drive	Hard Reset
Hardtail	Hardware Bypass	Hardwired
Harmonic	Harmonic Distortion	Harmonizer ®
Harmony	Harp Guitar	HDCD - High Definition Compatible Disc
HD DVD	HDMI	Head
Head Crash	Header	Head Gap
Headphones	Headroom	Head Shadow
Head Stack	Headstock	Heartwood
Heat Sink	Heel	Helical Scan
Helicon	Helmholz Resonator	Hemiola
Hermode Tuning	Herringbone	Heterodyne
Heterophony	Hexadecimal	Hexaphonic Pickup
HFS (& HFS+)	Hi-MD	Hi-Z
Hierarchical Menu	High Pass Filter	High Sierra
HiLoTron	Hit	HockeyStick Headstock
Hollow-Glas	Hollowbody/Semi-Hollowbody	Holophonics
Homophony	Hoopy (or Hoopie)	Horn
Hornpipe	Horseshoe Pickup	Host
Host Based	Hot Swap	House Sync
House Sync	HTDM	HTML
Hub	Hub	HUI
Hum	Humanize	Humbucker
Humbucking	HX Pro	Hygrometer
Hyperacusis	Hypercardioid	Hyperlink
HyperText	Hysteresis	Hertz