On 20/02/2018 15:52, Dave W wrote:
On 20/02/2018 09:33, Jim Lesurf wrote:
Just to let people know that I have now made freely available a PDF
version
of the book I wrote mumble years ago on Information and Measurement.
Can be
obtained from

http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/Informa...t_PDF_Book.pdf

The explanations use various examples like CD Players, etc, to illustrate
the underlaying methods and science.

Cheers,

Jim

I have downloaded it for later perusal. The margins are very wide -
maybe the book was a paperback - so I used Adobe Acrobat to crop the
pages and make another pdf from it, expanding the cropped pages to fill
A4. Now it's easier to read when the display is set to show the whole
page. I also saw that pages 1 & 2 are headed 6 & 7. I could not edit
them because the embedded font is not on my PC, but I removed their
colour so they don't show.

Just out of curiosity I downloaded it. He's right about the margins, but
I see no fault in the page numbers, nor odd bold lines.

I was amused by one section:

"[Chapter 19] chose the ill-fated example of DCC (Digital Compact
Cassette). The new version.... uses JPEG and MiniDisc as its examples."

Minidisc. Oh well. JPEG is still going though!

Andy

In article ,
Vir Campestris wrote:
"[Chapter 19] chose the ill-fated example of DCC (Digital Compact
Cassette). The new version.... uses JPEG and MiniDisc as its examples."

Minidisc. Oh well. JPEG is still going though!

I rather liked MiniDisc. For a while before computer based systems
arrived. Far better than NAB carts, and much cheaper too. I've still got a
stack of domestic Sonys modified to balanced outputs I used to carry
around.

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

keskiviikko 21. helmikuuta 2018 2.23.25 UTC+2 Dave Plowman (News) kirjoitti:
In article ,
Vir Campestris wrote:
"[Chapter 19] chose the ill-fated example of DCC (Digital Compact
Cassette). The new version.... uses JPEG and MiniDisc as its examples."

Minidisc. Oh well. JPEG is still going though!

I rather liked MiniDisc. For a while before computer based systems
arrived. Far better than NAB carts, and much cheaper too. I've still got a
stack of domestic Sonys modified to balanced outputs I used to carry
around.

Certainly better than NAB carts. Denon made a very good pro machine the
DN-990R. It has data RS232 serial port, and D sub 25 pin. Analogue in and
outs are balanced XLR plus RCA. Digital in and out on AES/EBU.

I still have one of these which works perfectly. Not a lot of demand these
days, but every now and again someone wants something transferred.

Iain

On 21/02/2018 00:22, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Vir Campestris wrote:
"[Chapter 19] chose the ill-fated example of DCC (Digital Compact
Cassette). The new version.... uses JPEG and MiniDisc as its examples."

Minidisc. Oh well. JPEG is still going though!

I rather liked MiniDisc. For a while before computer based systems
arrived. Far better than NAB carts, and much cheaper too. I've still got a
stack of domestic Sonys modified to balanced outputs I used to carry
around.

Minidisc was great, just perhaps a little late in coming to get real
success (and perhaps SCMS didn't help). Audio quality was great, and the
form factor small enough to be properly portable, unlike CD.

In article ,
Chris Bartram wrote:
On 21/02/2018 00:22, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Vir Campestris wrote:
"[Chapter 19] chose the ill-fated example of DCC (Digital Compact
Cassette). The new version.... uses JPEG and MiniDisc as its examples."

Minidisc. Oh well. JPEG is still going though!

I rather liked MiniDisc. For a while before computer based systems
arrived. Far better than NAB carts, and much cheaper too. I've still got a
stack of domestic Sonys modified to balanced outputs I used to carry
around.

Minidisc was great, just perhaps a little late in coming to get real
success (and perhaps SCMS didn't help). Audio quality was great, and the
form factor small enough to be properly portable, unlike CD.

I'm surprised it didn't appeal more to teenagers etc who liked to make up
their own tapes with cassette.

--
*If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On 21/02/2018 13:55, Chris Bartram wrote:
On 21/02/2018 00:22, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Â*Â*Â* Vir Campestris wrote:
"[Chapter 19] chose the ill-fated example of DCC (Digital Compact
Cassette). The new version.... uses JPEG and MiniDisc as its examples."

Minidisc. Oh well. JPEG is still going though!

I rather liked MiniDisc. For a while before computer based systems
arrived. Far better than NAB carts, and much cheaper too.

I assume you mean 8-tracks - they aren't quite the same. And what about
Compact Cassette? They were quite good once improvements were made to
the tape and heads &c. Too bad DAT wasn't allowed because of DRM and
consigned to computer data storage.

--
Max Demian

In article , Vir Campestris
wrote:

Just out of curiosity I downloaded it. He's right about the margins, but
I see no fault in the page numbers, nor odd bold lines.

It shows up in the 'Contents' section.

I was amused by one section:

"[Chapter 19] chose the ill-fated example of DCC (Digital Compact
Cassette). The new version.... uses JPEG and MiniDisc as its examples."

Minidisc. Oh well. JPEG is still going though!

Ah, yes. These days I'd have used flac or mp3/4, but the book was published
in 2001. So shows some signs of the stone age. :-)

I deliberately used the old Philips chipset for the DAC example, though, as
it also let me show oversampling in digital filtering and other methods
that are generally quite handy. So the techniques are still widely used.

Jim

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Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

On 20/02/2018 09:33, Jim Lesurf wrote:
Just to let people know that I have now made freely available a PDF version
of the book I wrote mumble years ago on Information and Measurement. Can be
obtained from

http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/Informa...t_PDF_Book.pdf

The explanations use various examples like CD Players, etc, to illustrate
the underlaying methods and science.


Excellent, thanks.


--
Cheers, Rob

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:33:43 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:

Just to let people know that I have now made freely available a PDF version
of the book I wrote mumble years ago on Information and Measurement. Can be
obtained from

http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/Informa...t_PDF_Book.pdf

[snip]

I would like to thank Jim for making this book available and to
comment that it seems ungrateful to criticise layouts and pagination.

OTOH I suppose all the regulars know each other on this group and such
observations may not be unexpected. :-)

Scott wrote:

it seems ungrateful to criticise layouts and pagination.

It's honest feedback, it's not as though anyone's asking for money back!