ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |30 pages

A short history of audio technology

part |2 pages

Part One: Principles of Digital Signal Processing

chapter 1|2 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|11 pages

Principles of sampling

chapter 3|8 pages

Principles of quantization

chapter 4|14 pages

Overview of A/D conversion systems

chapter 5|20 pages

Operation of A/D–D/A converters

chapter 6|3 pages

Codes for digital magnetic recording

chapter 7|14 pages

Principles of error correction

part |2 pages

Part Two: The Compact Disc

chapter 8|11 pages

Overview of the compact disc medium

chapter 9|14 pages

Compact disc encoding

chapter 10|17 pages

Opto-electronics and the optical block

chapter 11|12 pages

The servo circuits in CD players

chapter 12|14 pages

Signal processing

part |2 pages

Part Three: Digital Audio Recording Systems

chapter 13|2 pages

Outline

chapter 14|12 pages

Video PCM formats

chapter 15|21 pages

Digital audio tape (DAT) format

chapter 16|8 pages

Non-tracking digital audio tape (NT-DAT)

chapter 17|61 pages

MiniDisc

part |2 pages

Part Four: Advanced Digital Audio Technologies

chapter 18|16 pages

Super Audio CD (SACD)

chapter 19|5 pages

DVD-Audio

chapter 20|9 pages

Audio compression