Audio Engineering

622 Chapter 21 the frequency range 2–5 kHz. Whether or not you hear a sound therefore depends on the frequency of the sound and ...

Other Digital Audio Devices 623 Layer I is used in home recording systems and for solid-state audio (sound that has been recorde ...

624 Chapter 21 Table 21.1 shows the relative complexity of encoding and decoding for the three levels of MPEG-1. The encoding pr ...

Other Digital Audio Devices 625 ● Note that the MUSICAM algorithm is no longer used, it was developed into MPEG-1 Audio Layers I ...

626 Chapter 21 orchestral music (let’s face it, what system does?) but for many other applications it offers a sound quality tha ...

Other Digital Audio Devices 627 recordings) or by recording to MP3. The following paragraphs summarize the methods used for comp ...

628 Chapter 21 silent intervals. If your list of tracks shows separate fi les, the recording will always place track markers so ...

Other Digital Audio Devices 629 the level of the signal on its way to the WAV fi le, but this will not help if the input stage o ...

630 Chapter 21 edit the sound and to provide a source for conversion to MP3 or CD-R. Conversion to CD-R is a critical process be ...

Other Digital Audio Devices 631 You can also buy DAM CDs over the Internet. They often feature unknown artists and are priced ac ...

632 Chapter 21 Computers are the main end use of DVD at present, but DVD drives to replace videocassette players are already wid ...

Other Digital Audio Devices 633 The DVD can also end the concept of a fi lm as a single story because, unlike tape, it can switc ...

634 Chapter 21 The established regions are: United States, Canada, U.S. territories Japan, Europe, South Africa, Middle East (i ...

Other Digital Audio Devices 635 Considerable effort has gone into defi ning standards, but the fi nal specifi cation was approve ...

636 Chapter 21 we simply can’t guess how many problems of the same type we might see with DVD- Audio. For the long term, however ...

Microphone and Loudspeaker Technology PART 5 ...

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Microphone Technology Don Davis and Eugene Patronis 22.1 Microphone Sensitivity ................................................ ...

Pink noise Filter set Power amplifier Sound level meter Microvolt meter 94 dB-SPL Test loudspeaker Figure 22.1 : Measuring micro ...

Microphone Technology 641 The open circuit voltage output of the microphone when exposed to some other arbitrary acoustic level ...