April 2013
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
22h 18m
English
The distances involved in transmission vary from that of a short cable between adjacent units to communication anywhere on earth via data networks or radio communication. This chapter must consider a correspondingly wide range of possibilities. The importance of direct digital interconnection between audio devices was realized early, and numerous incompatible (and now obsolete) methods were developed by various manufacturers until standardization was reached in the shape of the AES/EBU digital audio interface for professional equipment and the SPDIF interface for consumer equipment. These standards were extended to produce the MADI standard for multi-channel interconnects. All of these work on uncompressed PCM ...
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