
Digital Audio and CD Technology
Focal Press
3rd Edition
Published on 31. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-240-51397-3 (ISBN)
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Description
Sony is one of the forerunners in this field, and co-inventor of the compact disc digital audio system. The book has been produced using all the resources and expertise of the Sony Service Centre (Europe).
Digital Audio and Compact Disc technology is the best book at the price on CD players and technology.
It is essential reading for audio engineers, students and hi-fi enthusiasts and offers a clear and easy to follow introduction to the subject. This latest edition now includesa technical description of DAT, the `Scoopman' (stamp size DAT format, MiniDisc and the Digital Compct Cassette format. It also covers the Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) and the Digital Interface format (S/PDIF - IEC 958).
Digital Audio and Compact Disc technology is the best book at the price on CD players and technology.
It is essential reading for audio engineers, students and hi-fi enthusiasts and offers a clear and easy to follow introduction to the subject. This latest edition now includesa technical description of DAT, the `Scoopman' (stamp size DAT format, MiniDisc and the Digital Compct Cassette format. It also covers the Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) and the Digital Interface format (S/PDIF - IEC 958).
Reviews / Votes
"Decidedly a book for which the market has been waiting...should find wide appeal amongst audio engineers, students and hi-fi enthusiasts." - Practical Electronics."The definitive book on CD players and associate 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"
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Edition
3rd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Audio engineers and students; service technicians. Experimenters and audio enthusiasts.<BR id="CRLF">
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-240-51397-3 (9780240513973)
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Jan Maes | Marc Vercammen
Digital Audio Technology
A Guide to CD, MiniDisc, SACD, DVD(A), MP3 and DAT
Book
09/2001
4th Edition
Focal Press
€111.30
Shipment within 15-20 days
Content
A short history of audio technology; Principles of digital signal processing; Introduction; Principles of sampling; Principles of quantization; Overview of A/D conversion systems; Operation of A/D - D/A converters; Codes for digital magnetic recording; Principles of error correction; 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; Digital audio recording systems; PCM adapters according to EIAJ; PCM - 1600/1610 format; Video 8 PCM-format; Digital audio tape (DAT) format; Appendix 1: Error