Digital Audio Technology: A Guide to CD, MiniDisc, SACD, DVD(A), MP3 and DAT,9780240516547

Digital Audio Technology: A Guide to CD, MiniDisc, SACD, DVD(A), MP3 and DAT

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780240516547
ISBN10: 0240516540
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2001-09-27
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Sony has been one of the forerunners in the field of digital audio, being the coinventor of the compact disc system. This book has been produced using all the resources and expertise of the Sony Service Centre (Europe).

Table of Contents

Preface xi
A short history of audio technology 1(30)
Part One: Principles of Digital Signal Processing 31(74)
Introduction
33(2)
Principles of sampling
35(11)
The Nyquist theorem
35(3)
Sampling frequency
38(3)
Sample-hold circuits
41(2)
Aperture control
43(2)
Characteristics and terminology of sample-hold circuits
45(1)
Principles of quantization
46(8)
Quantization error
47(2)
Calculation of theoretical signal-to-noise ratio
49(2)
Masking of quantization noise
51(1)
Conversion codes
51(3)
Overview of A/D conversion systems
54(14)
Linear (or uniform) quantization
54(1)
Companding systems
54(2)
Floating-point conversion
56(2)
Block floating-point conversion
58(1)
Differential PCM and delta modulation
59(1)
Super bit mapping (SBM)
60(3)
Direct stream digital (DSD)
63(5)
Operation of A/D-D/A converters
68(20)
A/D converters
68(9)
High-density linear A/D converter
77(2)
D/A conversion in digital audio equipment
79(9)
Codes for digital magnetic recording
88(3)
Non-return to zero (NRZ)
88(1)
Bi-phase
89(1)
Modified frequency modulation (MFM)
89(1)
Three-position modulation (3PM)
89(1)
High-density modulation-1 (HDM-1)
90(1)
Eight-to-fourteen modulation (EFM)
90(1)
EFM+
90(1)
Principles of error correction
91(14)
Types of code errors
91(2)
Error compensation
93(1)
Error detection
94(3)
Error correction
97(6)
Error concealment
103(1)
Interleaving
104(1)
Part Two: The Compact Disc 105(70)
Overview of the compact disc medium
107(11)
Main parameters
109(1)
Optical discs
109(1)
Recording and read-out system on a CD
109(3)
Signal parameters
112(1)
Audio signal
113(1)
Additional information on the CD
114(1)
Compact disc production
114(4)
Compact disc encoding
118(14)
CIRC encoding
119(2)
The control word
121(1)
The Q subcode and its usage
122(5)
EFM encoding
127(2)
The sync word
129(1)
Final bit rate
129(3)
Opto-electronics and the optical block
132(17)
The optical spectrum
132(1)
Interaction of optical waves with matter
133(2)
Optical components
135(5)
The injection laser diode (ILD)
140(3)
TOP: T-type optical pick-up
143(2)
FOP: flat-type optical pick-up
145(4)
The servo circuits in CD players
149(12)
Summary of the servo circuits in a CD player
151(1)
The focus servo circuit
152(1)
The tracking servo circuit
152(4)
The sled servo motor
156(1)
The disc motor servo circuit
156(2)
Digital servo
158(3)
Signal processing
161(14)
RF amplification
161(1)
Signal decoding
162(3)
D/A converter
165(2)
High-accuracy D/A conversion
167(8)
Part Three: Digital Audio Recording Systems 175(106)
Outline
177(2)
Video PCM formats
179(12)
Video 8 PCM format
179(1)
A/D-D/A conversion
179(3)
Description of the format
182(2)
DV-PCM format
184(7)
Digital audio tape (DAT) format
191(21)
R-DAT
191(8)
Automatic track following
199(1)
Error correction
200(4)
Subcode
204(5)
Tape duplication
209(1)
Cassette
210(2)
Non-tracking digital audio tape (NT-DAT)
212(8)
NT playback
212(1)
Double density scan
213(1)
NT read-out
214(1)
NT stamp-size DAT
215(5)
MiniDisc
220(61)
The rainbow book
221(2)
Block diagram
223(6)
Physical format
229(7)
Physical track layout
236(2)
Recording on MD
238(3)
Read-out of the disc
241(2)
The MiniDisc optical block unit
243(2)
The Wollaston principle
245(3)
The detector block
248(3)
Psychoacoustics
251(4)
ATRAC
255(12)
Data format
267(9)
Anti-shock operation
276(5)
Part Four: Advanced Digital Audio Technologies 281(32)
Super Audio CD (SACD)
283(16)
Introduction
283(1)
Technical specifications and dimensions
284(4)
Disc types
288(2)
Watermarking
290(1)
Encoding and sector format
291(3)
Disc structure
294(2)
Direct stream transfer
296(2)
Conclusion
298(1)
DVD-Audio
299(5)
Introduction
299(1)
Basic concept
300(1)
DVD versus CD
300(1)
Compression
300(3)
Disc structure
303(1)
Optical read-out system
303(1)
Options
303(1)
Audio compression
304(9)
Introduction
304(1)
MPEG
304(4)
Compression for other applications
308(1)
Multi-channel compression
308(5)
Appendix 1: Error correction 313(17)
Appendix 2: Sampling theorem 330(3)
Appendix 3: Serial copy management system (SCMS) 333(3)
Appendix 4: Digital audio interface format (S/PDIF-IEC958) 336(3)
Index 339

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