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An Introduction to Digital Audio brings all the fundamentals of digital audio to a wide audience. Every topic is described in plain English, from first principles, in John Watkinson's unique, accessible style. There are reasons instead of facts and practical applications to contrast with the theory. All of the key technologies are here: oversampling, noise shaping and error correction theories are treated in a simple yet accurate form. DAT, DASH, DCC, CD and MiniDisc recorders are all described here along with the growing technique of audio editing on hard disks. Thoroughly researched, totally up-to-date and technically accurate this is the only book you need to introduce the subject.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introducing digital audio
• Conversion
• Some essential principles
• Digital coding
• Digital audio interfaces
• Digital audio tape recorders
• Magnetic disk drives
• Digital audio editing
• Optical discs in audio

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CHOICE Review

Digital technology is commonplace today. Watkinson describes how this technology has been applied to audio engineering by presenting the fundamentals of digital audio in a concise manner with a minimum of mathematical detail, so that the fundamental concepts can be understood and appreciated by a wide audience. He illustrates how digital technology has permitted a higher quality of audio communication systems to be designed and at a lower cost. The key technologies presented include the principles of sampling analog waveforms, quantizing the samples, encoding them into binary digital signals, transmitting the digital signal, and reconstructing the analog waveforms from the received digital signal with a minimum of distortion. Other relevant topics addressed include error correction codes, data reduction, digital audio broadcast systems, digital logic electronic circuits, recording medium, optical disks, magnetic disk drives, CDs, etc. The book is well illustrated and includes a glossary. Recommended for libraries associated with technology and engineering programs. Undergraduate; two-year technical program students. F. A. Cassara; Polytechnic University