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INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL AUDIO
Introduction to Digital Audio
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Second Edition

By
John Watkinson, Reading, UK International consultant in audio, video and data recording.

Description
Master the basics from first principles: the physics of sound, principles of hearing etc, then progress onward to fundamental digital principles, conversion, compression and coding and then onto transmission, digital audio workstations, DAT and optical disks. Get up to speed with how digital audio is used within DVD, Digital Audio Broadcasting, networked audio and MPEG transport streams. All of the key technologies are here: compression, DAT, DAB, DVD, SACD, oversampling, noise shaping and error correction theories are treated in a simple yet accurate form. Thoroughly researched, totally up-to-date and technically accurate this is the only book you need on the subject.

Audience
Students studying audio, audio technology and broadcasting. Broadcast and Audio engineers.

Contents
Introducing Digital Audio; Some audio principles; Digital principles; Conversion; Compression; Digital coding principles; Transmission; Digital audio tape recorders; Magnetic disk drives; Digital audio editing; Optical disks in audio.

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 419 pages, publication date: SEP-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-51643-1
ISBN-10: 0-240-51643-5
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS

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