Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home: Improving the Listening and Viewing Experience from Focal Press 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.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Audio and Video Basics
Chapter 3. Optimal Reproduction
Chapter 4. Room Design
Chapter 5. Digital Sources
Chapter 6. Video Equipment
Chapter 7. Audio Equipment
Chapter 8. Room Acoustics
Chapter 9. Summary
Appendix A Test Tones and Patterns
Appendix B Software
Bibliography
Index