ABSTRACT

Designed to make life a little easier by providing all the theoretical background necessary to understand sound reproduction, backed up with practical examples. Specialist terms - both musical and physical - are defined as they occur and plain English is used throughout. Analog and digital audio are considered as alternatives, and the advantages of both are stressed.

Audio is only as good as the transducers employed, and consequently microphone and loudspeaker technology also feature heavily - making this the most comprehensive, up-to-date text currently available on all aspects of sound reproduction.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

chapter |53 pages

Audio basics

chapter |37 pages

Sound and psychoacoustics

chapter |28 pages

Sources of sound

chapter |20 pages

Microphones

chapter |35 pages

Loudspeakers and headphones

chapter |25 pages

Stereophony

chapter |82 pages

Digital audio signals

chapter |43 pages

Analog audio recording

chapter |53 pages

Digital recording

chapter |16 pages

Audio editing

chapter |55 pages

Audio signal processing