Fundamentals of Digital Audio.(Review)

Publication: Computer Music Journal

Publication Date: 22-MAR-01

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Since I too, like the author, am a teacher, I tend to evaluate a book like Alan Kefauver's Fundamentals of Digital Audio, published by A-R Editions, for its potential as a college text. In that, Mr. Kefauver's book succeeds admirably. It is well organized, the elementary explanations are clear and succinct, and most of the charts and drawings are well rendered and illuminate the text.

The book begins with a chapter on the basics of sound and sound reproduction. More on that later. The balance of the book is...

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