July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
419 pages
14h 24m
English
Content preview from Introduction to Digital Audio, 2nd Edition
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Contents
| Preface to the second edition | |||||||
| Chapter 1 | Introducing digital audio | ||||||
| 1.1 | Audio as data | ||||||
| 1.2 | What is an audio signal? | ||||||
| 1.3 | Why binary? | ||||||
| 1.4 | Why digital? | ||||||
| 1.5 | Some digital audio processes outlined | ||||||
| 1.6 | Time compression and expansion | ||||||
| 1.7 | Error correction and concealment | ||||||
| 1.8 | Channel coding | ||||||
| 1.9 | Audio compression | ||||||
| 1.10 | Disk-based recording | ||||||
| 1.11 | Rotary-head digital recorders | ||||||
| 1.12 | Digital audio broadcasting | ||||||
| 1.13 | Networks | ||||||
| References | |||||||
| Chapter 2 | Some audio principles | ||||||
| 2.1 | The physics of sound | ||||||
| 2.2 | Wavelength | ||||||
| 2.3 | Periodic and aperiodic signals | ||||||
| 2.4 | Sound and the ear | ||||||
| 2.5 | The cochlea | ||||||
| 2.6 | Mental processes | ||||||
| 2.7 | Level and loudness | ||||||
| 2.8 | Frequency discrimination | ||||||
| 2.9 | Frequency response and linearity | ||||||
| 2.10 | The sine wave | ||||||
| 2.11 | Root mean square measurements | ||||||
| 2.12 | The deciBel ... | ||||||
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