ABSTRACT

Sound Systems: Design and Optimization provides an accessible and unique perspective on the behavior of sound systems in the practical world. The third edition reflects current trends in the audio field thereby providing readers with the newest methodologies and techniques.

In this greatly expanded new edition, you’ll find clearer explanations, a more streamlined organization, increased coverage of current technologies and comprehensive case studies of the author’s award-winning work in the field.

As the only book devoted exclusively to modern tools and techniques in this emerging field, Sound Systems: Design and Optimization provides the specialized guidance needed to perfect your design skills.

This book helps you:

  • Improve your design and optimization decisions by understanding how audiences perceive reinforced sound
  • Use modern analyzers and prediction programs to select speaker placement, equalization, delay and level settings based on how loudspeakers interact in the space
  • Define speaker array configurations and design strategies that maximize the potential for spatial uniformity
  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of the tools and techniques required to generate a design that will create a successful transmission/reception model

part |203 pages

Sound systems

chapter |34 pages

Foundation

chapter |35 pages

Classification

chapter |52 pages

Transmission

chapter |60 pages

Summation

chapter |19 pages

Perception

part |173 pages

Design

chapter |20 pages

Evaluation

chapter |17 pages

Prediction

chapter |16 pages

Variation

chapter |51 pages

Combination

chapter |12 pages

Cancellation

chapter |53 pages

Specification

part |182 pages

Optimization

chapter |33 pages

Examination

chapter |25 pages

Verification

chapter |61 pages

Calibration

chapter |58 pages

Application

chapter |1 pages

Afterword