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Julius O. Smith's books are excellent, easily ranking up amongst the best text books I've always read. It's always a good sign if I look forwarding to continue reading as if it were a novel...

You can actually read them for free online: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/%7Ejos/Welcome.html I picked up printed copies on Amazon regardless, both because I wanted to support the author after reading almost a full book online, and because I sometimes prefer reading a physical textbook (the "spatiality" somehow helps me remember better).

I'm a Software Engineer without any background in signal processing (or audio), and stumbled upon his books when an FPGA hobby project of mine involved a simple audio pipeline for which I wanted to do some sample rate conversion. Since then DSP has become a hobby on its own.

I actually read the "Digital Filters" book (the second in the series) first, before reading the first book about DFT fundamentals, and it worked pretty well.

Cool! I could see reading this one first for sure, although DFT knowledge definitely helps.

Same here really, a software engineer by trade with a growing interest in audio. I’ve been really impressed with the quality of these books so far. Very meticulous attention to detail with _very_ few errors compared with most other books of its kind.

And to all that said, all the pages and books on his site ain't require JavaScript, unlike link in topic.

Are you refering to my site or JOS’s site? Can you elaborate please?

JOS's site doesn't require JavaScript to read the content. Your site requires JavaScript to read the content.

Yes, gotcha. My whole site is a react app with a lot of MathJax formatting and some posts center around JavaScript animations. But mainly the holdup is that it uses async-loaded code-splitting techniques to keep initial page loads down. It would be a big challenge to make it friendly without a lot of dynamic language help. Apologies. (Although I will think about how to make text-only content available as I agree with the idea that JS-only is unnecessarily restrictive when most of the actual content is text and images.)

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