Sound System Engineering

Long considered one of the key books on the well-informed audio engineer' s shelf, Sound System Engineering provides an accurate, complete, and concise tool for all those involved in designing, implementing, and testing sound reinforcement systems. This new fourth edition includes eight new chapters leading the reader through both cutting-edge topics' e.g., IBM' s proposed thought-controlled sound system' and solid basics, such as loudspeaker specifications, wave equations, and digital audio.

Chapter 1 Why Sound System Engineering? -- Chapter 2 Voices Out of the Past -- Chapter 3 Sound and Our Brain -- Chapter 4 Psychoacoustics -- Chapter 5 Digital Theory -- Chapter 6 Mathematics for Audio Systems -- Chapter 7 Using the Decibel -- Chapter 8 Interfacing Electrical and Acoustic Systems -- Chapter 9 Loudspeaker Directivity and Coverage -- Chapter 10 The Acoustic Enviroment -- Chapter 11 Audio and Acoustic Measurements -- Chapter 12 Large Room Acoustics -- Chapter 13 Small Room Acoustics -- Chapter 14 Designing for Acoustic Gain -- Chapter 15 Designing for Speech Intelligibility -- Chapter 16 What is Waving and Why -- Chapter 17 Microphone -- Chapter 18 Loudspeakers and Loudspeaker Arrays -- Chapter 19 Power Ratings for Amplifiers and Loudspeakers -- Chapter 20 Computer-Aided System Design -- Chapter 21 Signal Delay and Signal Synchronization -- Chapter 22 Signal Processing -- Chapter 2 Digital Audio Formats and Transports -- Chapter 24 Sound System Equalization -- Chapter 25 Putting It All Together -- Appendix