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Posted on June 1, 2015 at 20:24:33 | ||
and read. There always are threads where somebody has a question about room acoustics, or horns, or speaker design, or frequency ranges/wavelengths, or amplifier output, or music recording, or sound isolation, or soundstage, or, or, or. Often, the person posing the question, and the people replying, have gone little, if at all, beyond what they read in the hi-fi magazines, which can hardly be called scientifically informative. So, here's my "top four" list (in no particular order) of books which will be useful to every audiophile here. 1. "Music, Physics and Engineering" by Harry Olson. 2. "Master Handbook of Acoustics" by F. Alton Everest. 3. "Why You Hear What You Hear" by Eric Heller. 4. "The Loudspeaker Design Cookbook" by Vance Dickason. There are others, such as "Acoustical Designing in Architecture" by Vern Knudson and Cyril Harris, and "Acoustics" by Leo Beranek, but these four will give the audio enthusiast a good and well-rounded knowledge of many pertinent topics. :) |
i could write my own, and base it on posters' responses to questions [n.t.a.], posted on June 1, 2015 at 20:32:47 | |
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RE: Books Which Every Audiophile Should Own,, posted on June 2, 2015 at 03:39:56 | |
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RGA, have you started using Partial Differential Equations yet? Cheers Bill |
RE: Books Which Every Audiophile Should Own,, posted on June 2, 2015 at 05:08:05 | |
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Excellent list- Inmate51. |
RE: Books Which Every Audiophile Should Own,, posted on June 2, 2015 at 05:09:01 | |
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Excellent list- mkuller. |
RE: Books Which Every Audiophile Should Own,, posted on June 2, 2015 at 05:12:11 | |
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This is your brain on Music- |
RE: Books Which Every Audiophile Should Own,, posted on June 2, 2015 at 05:48:07 | |
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Perhaps that's because you never looked. |
New Audio Cyclopedia, posted on June 2, 2015 at 07:16:18 | |
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Maybe, posted on June 2, 2015 at 12:49:18 | |
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This is the list:
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RE: New Audio Cyclopedia, posted on June 2, 2015 at 14:53:53 | |
Ha! Here's the one I have, which I bought in 1975! 1700 pages of audio bliss. :) |
RE: New Audio Cyclopedia, posted on June 2, 2015 at 16:40:59 | |
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That is a classic, i have one too! |
I would have thought the answer is all too obvious. .........., posted on June 2, 2015 at 16:51:01 | |
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......A checkbook! |
RE: In that case..., posted on June 17, 2015 at 18:09:04 | |
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Best book on Dylan ? |
RE: Books Which Every Audiophile Should Own,, posted on July 29, 2015 at 15:38:46 | |
'Radiotron Designer's Handbook', Edited by F. Langford-Smith. I think this is available as a free pdf download now. |