References for DIY Digital Audio

#1 Build A Better Player, Mark Norton; HiFi News & Record Review, June, 1987

#2 Supertuning CD, Ben Duncan; HiFi News & Record Review Nov, Dec, Jan, 1988 & Refresher Mar, 1989

#3 Improved CD Electronics, Ben Duncan; Electronics World & Wireless World May 1990

#4 Op Amp Meets CD, Walt Jung; The Audio Amateur, 3/86

#5 POOGE-4: Phillips Magnavox CD Player Mods, W. Jung & Hampton Childress; The Audio Amateur, 1/88, 2/88

#6 POOGE-4 Modifications: Test Report, Gary Galo; The Audio Amateur, 2/88

#7 Direct Mods for the Magnavox CDB-560, K. Beers; The Audio Amateur, 1/89

#8 POOGE-5: Rite of Passage For The DAC960, Gary Galo; The Audio Amateur, 2/92, 3/92

#9 POOGE-5.5: More DAC960 Modifications, Gary Galo; The Audio Amateur, 1/94

#10 Greening Magnavox 14-Bit CDs, John Gallgaier;The Audio Amateur, 4/88

#11 Improving The CDB-650's DAC, John Gallgaier;The Audio Amateur, 1/91

#12 A Simple High Quality CD Output Amp, J.M.Didden;The Audio Amateur, 2/89

#13 High Performance Analog Circuitery For CD Players, Paul Marchese; The Audio Amateur, 2/90

#14 A Valued Vacuum Tube Denon 1500, Richard Painter The Audio Amateur, 1/89

#15 A.F. Digital-To-Analog-Converter, T. Giesberts; Elektror Electronics July and Sept., 1992

#16 Building Bitstream, Ben Duncan & Paul Freer; HiFi News & Record Review Sept., Oct. 1992

#17 The Present State of CD Player Technology: Who Is Doing It Right?, David Rich; The Audio Critic issue ?

#18 Clock Jitter, D/A Converters, and Sample-Rate Conversion, Robert Adams; The Audio Critic, issue No. 21, Spring 1994

#19 Build A CD Player, T. Giffard; Elektror Electronics Jan 1992

#20 Inside CD, John Watkinson; HiFi News & Record Review Nov 1986-Apr 1987

#21 Do It Yourself DAC Construction, Sheldon Stokes; Positive Feedback Vol.5 No.1

#22 DIY DAC Update, Sheldon Stokes; Positive Feedback Vol.5 No.4

#23 A Tube DAC, Norman Tracy; Glass Audio 1/94

#1 The Jitter Game, Robert Harley; Stereophile January 1993

#2 A Digital Discourse, Dr. Malcolm Hawksford; HiFi News & Record Review Feb, April, June, Aug, 1990

#3 The Effects of Sampling Clock Jitter on Nyquist Sampling ADCs, and on Oversampling Delta Sigma ADCs, Steven Harris; Journal Audio Engineering Society, July 1990

#4 Is the AES/EBU-S/PDIF Digital Audio Interface Flawed?, Chris Dunn & Dr. Malcolm Hawksford; Audio Engineering Society preprint

#5 Jitter: Specification and Assessment in Digital Audio Equipment, Julian Dunn; Audio Engineering Society preprint

#6 Jitter & The Digital Interface, Remy Fourre (Ultra Analog); Stereophile October 1993

#7 A Transport of Delight, Robert Harley; Stereophile Nov. 1993

Preprints are available for $5 ea. from:

Audio Engineering Society

60 East 42nd Street

NY NY 10165 USA.

AES/EBU:

"AES Recommended Practice for Digital Audio Engineering - Serial Transmission Format for Linearly Rpresented Digital Audio Data," AES3-1985 (ANSI S4.40-1985), Audio Engineering Society, New York, published in J. Audio Eng. Soc., vol 33, no 12, pp 976-984, 1985 Dec.

Recent revision:

"AES Recommended Practice for Digital Audio Engineering - Serial Transmission Format for Linearly Represented Digital Audio Data," AES3-1992 (ANSI S4.40-1992), Audio Engineering Society, New York, published in J. Audio Eng. Soc., vol 40, no 3, pp 147-165, 1992 March.

In the same issue:

R. A. Finger, "AES3-1992: The revised two-channel digital audio interface," pp. 107-116. [An interesting history of AES3 and rationale for the changes and specifications] 

In the same issue:

AES18-1992 (ANSI S4.52-1992) AES Recommended practice for digital audio engineering - Format for the user data channel of the AES digital audio interface," pp. 166-183.