Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Mastering Audio explains leading-edge audio concepts in an easy-to-grasp, holistic manner, including an ear-opening investigation of the mysteries of jitter, dither and wordlengths, high sample rates, distortion, headroom, monitor calibration, metering, depth perception, compression and expansion, equipment interconnection and much more. Mastering Audio is for everyone who wants to increase their mastery of digital and analog audio: musicians, producers, A&R, mastering, recording and mixing engineers, and students.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword
• Preparation: No Mastering Engineer is an Island
• Connecting It Together
• An Earientation Session
• Word lengths and Dither
• Decibels for Dummies
• Monitoring Mastering: Putting the Album Together
• Equalization Techniques
• Macrodynamics
• The Downward Processes
• The Lost Processes
• Noise Reduction
• Other Processing Advance Theory and Practice: Monitor Calibration
• The K-System
• Analog and Digital Signal Processing
• How to Achieve Depth and Dimension in Recording, Mixing and Mastering
• High Sample Rates, Is This Where It's At?
• Jitter--Separating the Myths From the Mysteries
• Tips and Tricks Out of the Jungle: Education, Education, Education
• At Last Appendices