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David Moulton's Audio Lecture Series, Volume 4: Digital Audio / Sensory Benchmark Tests
David Moulton
Volume 4 of David Moulton's *Audio Lecture Series* turns to digital audio and includes his "sensory benchmark" listening tests. In this spoken-word installment Moulton explains how digital recording actually works — sampling, quantization and the realities behind the marketing — and, distinctively, uses structured ear-training exercises to help listeners calibrate their own perception against known references. As throughout the series, the goal is to build genuine listening skill and clear conceptual understanding rather than to memorize specs. Aimed at engineers, producers and musicians, this volume speaks to anyone wanting to understand digital audio from the inside and to test and sharpen what their ears can actually detect.
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The author
Dave Moulton is an American recording engineer, educator and acoustician whose career spans studio work with artists from the Concord String Quartet to Sonny Rollins, teaching posts at SUNY Fredonia and Berklee, a Grammy nomination for classical engineering, and fellowship in the Audio Engineering Society. He is the creator of the Golden Ears ear-training program and author of Total Recording.
The book
The Audio Lecture Series was drawn from Moulton's teaching and released as audio programs. Volume 4 covers digital audio and pairs the explanations with sensory benchmark tests — listening exercises designed to measure and train perceptual acuity.
How to read it
The benchmark tests only work if you actually do them, attentively and on trustworthy playback, so this is a hands-on listening course rather than a lecture to absorb passively. The perceptual and digital-audio fundamentals remain sound, though the surrounding technology has advanced since the series was produced.
For more context
Use it with the other volumes and with Moulton's Golden Ears course for a fuller ear-training path.
Sources
- Type
- Book
- Author / Maker
- David Moulton
- Publisher
- KIQ Productions / Moulton Laboratories
- ISBN
- None
- Shelf
- Music
- Location
- Colorado