Schedule for DT2410 Audio Technology, autumn 2010

 

Last modified on 29 October, 2010.

 

The lecturers will assume that you have read the chapters listed below in advance. Please see the Literature page for info on the books.

 

The room Fantum is at the TMH department, Lindstedtsvägen 24, on the top floor.

 

The laboratory sessions are three-hour sessions on Thursdays and Fridays, from 18 Nov to 3 dec. A spare lab session is 1 Dec at 15-18. See the graphical schedule in the course guide.

 

F1

Mon 25/10

15-17  Fantum

Mandatory attendance. Course overview. Division into groups. Allocation of laboratory schedule. Introduction to the group assignments. Sten Ternström (WIntro chap 1-3, WArt chap 1).

F2

Tue 26/10
10-12, Fantum

”You are surrounded!” Background & theory for spatial sound. (handout material.) Guest lecturer dr Damian Murphy, dept of Electronics, University of York.

F3

Mon 1/11

8-10, Fantum

Recording for stereo and spatial sound. Damian Murphy. (Recapitulate on microphones from earlier courses)

F4 Tue 2/11
08-10 Fantum 		Alternative 3D sound systems: Ambisonics, wavefield synthesis and binaural/transaural presentation. Damian Murphy. (handouts)

Ö1

Wed 3/11

8-10, D32

Numerical methods for room acoustics simulations. DM, ST (handouts).

Note the change of room.

F5

Mon 8/11

15-17, D41

A/D-D/A-conversion part 1. Sampling and quantisation for audio. (Pohlmann chaps 2-4, WIntro chap 4, WArt chap 4) ST

F6

Wed 10 /11

8-10, D32

A/D-D/A-conversion part 2. Dither, convertors. (Pohlmann chaps 3, 4, 18, WIntro chap 4, WArt chap 4) Oversampling, noise-shaping, single-bit-converters. ST

Ö2

Wed 10/11

13-14 or 14-15

Field trip, to Stockholm Mastering, Artillerigatan 81. Host Sofia von Hage. One group at 13.00, another at 14.00.

http://www.stockholmmastering.se/en.html
F7 Mon 15/11
15-17, D41		 Hardware for audio part 1: IC's and buses for digital audio, construction examples (handout materials). ST, with surprise guest.
F8

Wed 17/11
08-10, D32

Software architectures for audio, part 1. How audio is handled in different operating systems, in many layers of protocol. ST
Ö3

Wed 17/11
13-15, V21

Exercise on A/D-D/A. Methods for sampling-rate conversion. ST

F9

Mon 22/11

15-17,  V21

Software architectures for audio, part 2. Common high-level tools and applications. ST
Ö4

Wed 24/11

8-10, D32

Group assignments: status reports, problem solving.

ST

F10

Wed 24/11

13-15, D41

Coding and compression of audio signals (Pohlmann chaps 10+11, WArt, WIntro chap 5)

F11

Mon 29/11
8-10, D41

Hardware for audio part 2, transmission: types of cables and networks. (Pohlmann chap 13, 14, 15; WArt chap 8, WIntro chaps 7,9) ST
Ö5

Wed 1/12
13-15, Fantum

Round table discussion on design criteria for different types of audio installations ST. Hand in group assignments. Electronic submission of your exam problem by midnight
F12 Mon 6 dec
13-15, Fantum		 Optical discs in audio: CD, DVD, DVD-Audio and SACD. (Pohlmann chaps 6-9, WIntro chap 11, Swedish Radio's green book). ST

F13

Tue 7 dec
13-15, Fantum

Audio in broadcasting: DAB+, DVB-NGH, surround, current distribution technologies (Pohlmann chap 16, SR's blue book). (WArt chap 13). Lars Jonsson, technical strategist, Swedish Broadcasting Corporation.

F14 +

F15

Wed 8 dec

13-17, Fantum

Course Finale, Assignment presentations! Open to all audiophiles at KTH. Course conclusion. The home exam is handed out. Sten Ternström
Field trip TBA http://www.studioblue.se

Exam

Fri 17/12

10-11

Deadline for turning in the written exam. Outside Sten's office.