Digital audio technology : a guide to CD, MiniDisc, SACD, DVD(A), MP3 and DAT / edited by Jan Maes and Marc Vercammen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maes, Jan.

Vercammen, Marc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound--Recording and reproducing--Digital techniques.

Sound.

Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Focal, c2001.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 ent

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; A short history of audio technology; Part One: Principles of Digital Signal Processing; 1 Introduction; 2 Principles of sampling; The Nyquist theorem; Sampling frequency; Sample-hold circuits; Aperture control; Characteristics and terminology of sample-hold circuits; 3 Principles of quantization; Quantization error; Calculation of theoretical signal-to-noise ratio; Masking of quantization noise; Conversion codes; 4 Overview of A/D conversion systems; Linear (or uniform) quantization; Companding systems; Floating-point conversion

Block floating-point conversionDifferential PCM and delta modulation; Super bit mapping (SBM); Direct stream digital (DSD); 5 Operation of A/D-D/A converters; A/D converters; High-density linear A/D converter; D/A conversion in digital audio equipment; 6 Codes for digital magnetic recording; Non-return to zero (NRZ); Bi-phase; Modified frequency modulation (MFM); Three-position modulation (3PM); High-density modulation-1 (HDM-1); Eight-to-fourteen modulation (EFM); EFM+; 7 Principles of error correction; Types of code errors; Error compensation; Error detection; Error correction

Error concealmentInterleaving; Part Two: The Compact Disc; 8 Overview of the compact disc medium; Main parameters; Optical discs; Recording and read-out system on a CD; Signal parameters; Audio signal; Additional information on the CD; Compact disc production; 9 Compact disc encoding; CIRC encoding; The control word; The Q subcode and its usage; EFM encoding; The sync word; Final bit rate; 10 Opto-electronics and the optical block; The optical spectrum; Interaction of optical waves with matter; Optical components; The injection laser diode (ILD); TOP: T-type optical pick-up

FOP: flat-type optical pick-up11 The servo circuits in CD players; Summary of the servo circuits in a CD player; The focus servo circuit; The tracking servo circuit; The sled servo motor; The disc motor servo circuit; Digital servo; 12 Signal processing; RF amplification; Signal decoding; D/A converter; High-accuracy D/A conversion; Part Three: Digital Audio Recording Systems; 13 Outline; 14 Video PCM formats; Video 8 PCM format; A/D-D/A conversion; Description of the format; DV-PCM format; 15 Digital audio tape (DAT) format; R-DAT; Automatic track following; Error correction; Subcode

Tape duplicationCassette; 16 Non-tracking digital audio tape (NT-DAT); NT playback; Double density scan; NT read-out; NT stamp-size DAT; 17 MiniDisc; The rainbow book; Block diagram; Physical format; Physical track layout; Recording on MD; Read-out of the disc; The MiniDisc optical block unit; The Wollaston principle; The detector block; Psychoacoustics; ATRAC; Data format; Anti-shock operation; Part Four: Advanced Digital Audio Technologies; 18 Super Audio CD (SACD); Introduction; Technical specifications and dimensions; Disc types; Watermarking; Encoding and sector format; Disc structure

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Notes:

"First published as Digital audio and compact disc technology. 1988".

Previous editions edited by Luc Baert ... [et al.].

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786611012434

9781136118623

1136118624

9781281012432

1281012432

9780080494531

0080494536

OCLC:

171131572