This posting archives the best papers on audio signal processing. I will keep this first post updated with links and suggestions from everyone.
One of the best papers I have read on the topic of audio sampling rates and resolution from Bob Stewart of Meridian fame: http://www.meridian-audio.com/w_paper/Coding2.PDF
Dither
Most famous paper in this area: Resolution Below the Least Significant Bit in Digital Systems with Dither
John Vanderkooy and Stanley P. Lipshitz
http://www.drewdaniels.com/dither.pdf
The Application of Dither and Noise-Shaping to Nyquist-Rate Digital Audio: an Introduction.
Christopher Hicks, Communications and Signal Processing Group, Cambridge University Engineering Department
http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/sites/default/files/documents/ditherap.pdf
Highly technical paper but does have easier to read sections that talks about noise-shaped dither to increase dynamic range in critical frequencies including Sony's Super Bitmapping (SBM) scheme.
"Theory of Dithered Quantization" by Wannamaker" http://www.digitalsignallabs.com/phd.pdf
Sampling Rate
I found this paper as explanation of 192 KHz sampling not being a good step forward. In reality, I find the paper hard to follow even though it does touch on that topic: http://www.digitalaudio.dk/media/3Tradeoff_of_192_kHz.pdf
Article on DSD/DXD: http://www.merging.com/uploads/assets//Merging_pdfs/dxd_Resolution_v3.5.pdf
Room Correction/EQ
Nice but very technical paper from Dirac on difference between filter types and impact on Room EQ: http://www.dirac.se/media/12044/on_room_correction.pdf
Jitter
Great AES paper by Julian Dunn: http://www.nanophon.com/audio/diagnose.pdf
Great paper covering all aspects of AES digital interface including esoteric concepts such as jitter induced by the cable: http://tvit.org/GuyCD/Reports/Conference/aes-2id-1996.pdf
Excellent tutorial on jitter: http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5989-5718EN.pdf
Jitter measurement paper: http://www.msbtech.com/support/JitterPaper.pdf
Cabling
Design of High-Performance Balanced Audio Interfaces: http://sound.westhost.com/articles/balanced-interfaces.pdf
Cable testing: http://www.canare.com/UploadedDocum...phone Cable Perfrmance and Specifications.pdf
Dynamic Range of Audio
Dolby Paper: http://www.zainea.com/Dynamic range.htm
One of the best papers I have read on the topic of audio sampling rates and resolution from Bob Stewart of Meridian fame: http://www.meridian-audio.com/w_paper/Coding2.PDF
Dither
Most famous paper in this area: Resolution Below the Least Significant Bit in Digital Systems with Dither
John Vanderkooy and Stanley P. Lipshitz
http://www.drewdaniels.com/dither.pdf
The Application of Dither and Noise-Shaping to Nyquist-Rate Digital Audio: an Introduction.
Christopher Hicks, Communications and Signal Processing Group, Cambridge University Engineering Department
http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/sites/default/files/documents/ditherap.pdf
Highly technical paper but does have easier to read sections that talks about noise-shaped dither to increase dynamic range in critical frequencies including Sony's Super Bitmapping (SBM) scheme.
"Theory of Dithered Quantization" by Wannamaker" http://www.digitalsignallabs.com/phd.pdf
Sampling Rate
I found this paper as explanation of 192 KHz sampling not being a good step forward. In reality, I find the paper hard to follow even though it does touch on that topic: http://www.digitalaudio.dk/media/3Tradeoff_of_192_kHz.pdf
Article on DSD/DXD: http://www.merging.com/uploads/assets//Merging_pdfs/dxd_Resolution_v3.5.pdf
Room Correction/EQ
Nice but very technical paper from Dirac on difference between filter types and impact on Room EQ: http://www.dirac.se/media/12044/on_room_correction.pdf
Jitter
Great AES paper by Julian Dunn: http://www.nanophon.com/audio/diagnose.pdf
Great paper covering all aspects of AES digital interface including esoteric concepts such as jitter induced by the cable: http://tvit.org/GuyCD/Reports/Conference/aes-2id-1996.pdf
Excellent tutorial on jitter: http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5989-5718EN.pdf
Jitter measurement paper: http://www.msbtech.com/support/JitterPaper.pdf
Cabling
Design of High-Performance Balanced Audio Interfaces: http://sound.westhost.com/articles/balanced-interfaces.pdf
Cable testing: http://www.canare.com/UploadedDocum...phone Cable Perfrmance and Specifications.pdf
Dynamic Range of Audio
Dolby Paper: http://www.zainea.com/Dynamic range.htm