Digital Audio Technology

Zusatztext REVIEWS OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS:'Decidedly a book for which the market has been waiting... it should find wide appeal amongst audio engineers! students and hi-fi enthusiasts.' Practical Electronics magazine'The definitive book on CD players and associated technology...essential reading for the budding audio engineers...a place should be found for it on the shelves of the electronics department in every college and at all good reference libraries.'Hi-Fi News magazine Informationen zum Autor Jan Maes Klappentext Sony has been one of the forerunners in the field of digital audio, being the coinventor of the compact disc system. This book has been produced using all the resources and expertise of the Sony Service Centre (Europe). Zusammenfassung Explains the technology behind the major digital audio consumer products which include the Compact Disc, MiniDisc, Super Audio CD, DVD-Audio, MP3 and Digital Audio Tape. This book presents an overview of the history of audio technology and covers the principles and technologies which underpin the various formats available. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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)...

Autorentext

Jan Maes

Klappentext

Sony has been one of the forerunners in the field of digital audio, being the coinventor of the compact disc system. This book has been produced using all the resources and expertise of the Sony Service Centre (Europe).

Zusammenfassung
Explains the technology behind the major digital audio consumer products which include the Compact Disc, MiniDisc, Super Audio CD, DVD-Audio, MP3 and Digital Audio Tape. This book presents an overview of the history of audio technology and covers the principles and technologies which underpin the various formats available.

Inhalt
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)