Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home is a comprehensive guide that will help every reader set up a modern audio-video system in a small room such as a home theater or studio control room.
Verdult covers everything the reader needs to know to optimize the reproduction of multichannel audio and high-resolution video. The book provides concrete advice on equipment setup, display calibration, loudspeaker positioning, room acoustics, and much more.
Detailed, easy-to-grasp explanations of the underlying principles ensure the reader will make the right choices, find alternatives, and separate the rigid from the more flexible requirements to achieve the best possible results.
By:
Vincent Verdult
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 191mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138335417
ISBN 10: 113833541X
Pages: 346
Publication Date: 15 April 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Audio and Video Basics 2.1 The Audio-Video System 2.1.1 Multichannel Audio 2.1.2 Audio and Video Equipment 2.1.3 Factors that Influence Reproduction Quality 2.2 Moving Images 2.2.1 Luminance and Brightness 2.2.2 Color 2.3 Sound 2.3.1 Frequency, Pitch, and Timbre 2.3.2 Sound Pressure and Loudness 2.3.3 Sound Propagation 2.3.4 Room Acoustics Chapter 3 Optimal Reproduction 3.1 Film and Video Production 3.2 Image Quality 3.2.1 Tonal Quality 3.2.2 Detail 3.2.3 Spatial Quality 3.3 Sound Production 3.3.1 Recording and Mixing 3.3.2 Sound Reproduction 3.4 Sound Quality 3.4.1 Spectral Balance 3.4.2 Clarity 3.4.3 Dynamics 3.4.4 Localization 3.4.5 Immersion 3.5 Listening Tests Chapter 4 Room Design 4.1 The Need for Subwoofers 4.2 Floor Plan 4.2.1 Placement Options 4.2.2 Position of the Video Display 4.2.3 Positions of the Front Loudspeakers 4.2.4 Positions of the Surround Loudspeakers 4.2.5 Distance between Loudspeakers and Nearby Walls 4.2.6 Positions of the Subwoofers 4.3 Room Requirements 4.3.1 Ambient Light 4.3.2 Background Noise 4.4 Installing a Front-Projection System Chapter 5 Digital Sources 5.1 Video Coding 5.1.1 Aspect Ratio 5.1.2 Resolution 5.1.3 Progressive and Interlaced Scanning 5.1.4 Perceptual Coding 5.2 Audio Coding 5.2.1 Sampling Rate 5.2.2 Bit Depth 5.2.3 Direct Stream Digital (DSD) 5.2.4 Lossless Audio Compression 5.2.5 Perceptual Coding 5.3 Digital Media 5.3.1 Digital Television 5.3.2 Internet Streaming 5.3.3 Media Files 5.3.4 Computer Audio 5.3.5 Digital Audio Extraction 5.3.6 Optical Discs 5.4 Digital Connections 5.4.1 HDMI 5.4.2 S/PDIF 5.4.3 USB Audio Chapter 6 Video Equipment 6.1 Video Displays 6.1.1 Performance 6.1.2 Flat-Panel Displays 6.1.3 Front Projectors 6.1.4 Projection Screens 6.2 Display Calibration 6.2.1 White Point 6.2.2 Black and White Level 6.2.3 Luminance Output 6.2.4 Color and Tint 6.2.5 Grayscale Tracking 6.2.6 Color Gamut 6.3 Video Processing 6.3.1 Scaling 6.3.2 Sharpness 6.3.3 Output Color Space 6.3.4 Deinterlacing 6.3.5 Motion Resolution 6.3.6 Image Enhancement Chapter 7 Audio Equipment 7.1 Loudspeakers 7.1.1 Drivers 7.1.2 Crossovers 7.1.3 Enclosures 7.1.4 Performance 7.1.5 Front Loudspeakers 7.1.6 Surround Loudspeakers 7.1.7 Loudspeaker Stands 7.2 Power Amplifiers 7.2.1 Power Requirements 7.2.2 Amplifier Types 7.2.3 Performance 7.3 Subwoofers 7.3.1 Lowest Frequency 7.3.2 Maximum Sound Level 7.4 Cables for Analog Audio Signals 7.4.1 Loudspeaker Cables 7.4.2 Interconnects 7.5 Audio Processing 7.5.1 Surround Decoding and Processing 7.5.2 Bass Management 7.5.3 Delay Settings 7.5.4 Level Settings 7.5.5 Dynamic Range Control 7.5.6 Room Correction and Equalization Chapter 8 Room Acoustics 8.1 Reproducing Low Frequencies in Rooms 8.1.1 Room Resonance Modes 8.1.2 Bass Absorbers 8.1.3 Subwoofer Calibration 8.2 Reproducing High and Mid Frequencies in Rooms 8.2.1 Controlling Early Reflections 8.2.2 Porous Absorbers 8.2.3 Diffusers Chapter 9 Summary 9.1 Buying Equipment 9.2 Designing the Room 9.3 Placing Loudspeakers 9.4 Installing Equipment 9.5 Setting Up the System 9.6 Playing Content Appendix A Test Tones and Patterns Appendix B Software Bibliography Index
Vincent Verdult is currently Senior Information Security Consultant at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, The Hague, the Netherlands. He was born in 1974 in the Netherlands. From 2001 to 2005, he was an assistant professor in systems and control engineering at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He has always had a keen interest in audio and video engineering. In his spare time, he has used his engineering knowledge to design and build his own subwoofers, create and install his own acoustical devices, and optimize his audio-video setup in six different rooms over the last 20 years.
