Need advice on which type of speaker to use and where? Very often the choice and positioning of loudspeakers is down to intuition, hearsay and chance. This practical guide explores the link between experience and the technology, giving you a better understanding of the tools you are using and why, leading to greatly improved results. Newell and Holland share years of experience in the design, application and use of loudspeakers for recording and reproducing music. Get practical advice on the applications of different loudspeakers to the different phases of the music recording and reproduction chain. If you are using loudspeakers in a recording studio, mastering facility, broadcasting studio, film post production facility, home or musician's studio, or you inspire to improve your music reproduction system this book will help you make the right decisions.
Testing Loudspeakers
In comparison tests of many kinds, especially in wine tasting and drug testing, considerable effort is expended to ensure ... test results to reveal whether there is an audible difference and if that difference results in a preference.
The essential guide to sound reproduction, offering practical advice on the room-loudspeaker system and entire sound reproduction chain from a leading expert in the field.
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2.9 ChARACTERIZATIon oF loUDSPEAkER PERFoRMAnCE 2.9.1 Motivation In considering the behavior of a loudspeaker, it stands to reason that we need performance parameters with which we can evaluate the effectiveness of a specific device for ...
High Performance Loudspeakers, Sixth Edition is a fully revised and updated version of the highly successful guide to the design and specifications of high quality loudspeakers and loudspeaker systems. Each...
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The book covers such topics as loudspeaker design tradeoffs, spatial loading, diffraction loss, cavity effect and enclosure construction. A complete chapter is devoted to the subject of crossover design including design equations.
The comb-filtered response that occurs at off-axis positions is an accepted limitation of two-channel stereo reproduction over loudspeakers and will not be considered further in this chapter. However, what is important when considering ...
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