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A Guide to CD, MiniDisc, SACD, DVD(A), MP3 and DAT
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Fourth Edition
Edited By
Jan Maes, Technical Support Manager, Sony Europe, CRSE (Customer Relations and Service Europe).
Marc Vercammen, Technical Support Engineer, Sony Europe, CRSE (Customer Relations and Service Europe).
Description
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.
Audience
Audio engineers and students; service technicians and hi-fi enthusiasts.
Contents
Preface; A short history of audio technology; PART ONE: 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 TWO: 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 THREE: DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDING SYSTEMS; Outline; Video
PCM-formats; Digital audio tape (DAT) format; Non-tracking digital audio tape (DAT); MiniDisc; PART FOUR: 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)
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 360 pages, publication date: SEP-2001
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-51654-7
ISBN-10: 0-240-51654-0
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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