Text| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 621.3893 MAE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000215955 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An expert team from SONY Europe explains the technology behind today's major digital audio consumer products, including the Compact Disc, MiniDisc, Super Audio CD, DVD-Audio, MP3 and Digital Audio Tape. Beginning with a fascinating overview of the history of audio technology, this fourth edition addresses the principles and technologies which underpin the various formats currently available. Considerable technical detail is provided, with extensive use of illustrations to enhance understanding. Audio engineers, students and hi-fi enthusiasts who want to gain an understanding of the way these technologies have been developed will find no better introduction than this authoritative guide from SONY, a forerunner in the digital audio industry.
Previous ed.: published as Digital audio and compact disc technology by Luc Baert. 1995.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- A short history of audio technology
- Part 1 Principles of Digital Signal Processing
- Introduction
- Principles of sampling
- Principles of quantization
- Overview of A/D conversion systems
- Operation of AD-D/A converters
- Codes for digital magnetic recording
- Principles of error correction
- Part 2 The Compact Disc
- Overview of the compact disc medium
- Compact disc encoding
- Opto-electronics and the optical block
- The servo circuits in CD players
- Signal processing
- Part 3 Digital Audio Recording Systems
- Outline
- Video PCM-formats
- Digital audio tape (DAT) format
- Non-tracking digital audio tape (DAT)
- MiniDisc
- Part 4 Advanced Digital Audio Technologies
- Super audio compact disc (SACD)
- DVD-Audio
- Audio compression
- APPENDICES
- Error correction
- Sampling theorem
- Serial copy management system (SCMS)
- Digital audio interface format (S/PDIF-IEC958)