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Inside, you get full details on a valuable new computer program that helps you create top-flight speaker systems while avoiding complicated mathematical equations and errors. Also new to this edition are improved speaker tests, expanded information on crossover networks, practical dimension charts, techniques for designing double-chamber reflex enclosures, and more. The book provides you with concise, step-by-step instructions for building speakers, and teaches you how to choose speakers that are best suited for various specific uses, set up a home system that will give you optimal performance, and critically evaluate speakers by ear if you lack test equipment. The included list of driver and system components suppliers helps you get started right away.
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David B. Weems is an acknowledged expert in speaker systems and speaker enclosures. He has written several books, including all four editions of Designing, Building, and Testing Your Own Speaker Systems—with Projects and the first edition of this volume. Weems also has contributed numerous articles on speaker systems to such widely read electronics publications as Audio, High Fidelity, Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics, and Speaker Builder. G. R. Koonce is a member of the Audio Engineering Society and contributes many articles to Speaker Builder magazine.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was well worth the money! I was struggling to find someone who could explain to me what all the 'letters' mean in speaker design, and how that translates into a specific size of box.
The author of this book takes great care to fully explain the meaning of the different elements and how they all relate to each other.
The author of this book takes great care to fully explain the meaning of the different elements and how they all relate to each other.
The only negative point I can make is that this book only focuses on Closed-Box and Ported speaker designs. Other types (Band-pass, Horn Loaded, Transmission Line, etc) are mentioned, but there's no real information to help you design one.
Given that 99% of speakers are either Closed-Box or Ported, this is not really a big issue.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
While the book has designs which probably work nicely (I have not constructed any) I was hoping to find a dissemination of the AES Journal papers by Small, Thiele and possibly Olson also. However the technical literature is not mentioned much at all. There isn't much teaching in this book. The author gives design tables and so forth with little explanation as to how they were produced or the physical processes that they arise from. In this respect the book is very disappointing. If however you are looking for a 'cookbook' to follow, then this is a good example with nice diagrams and copious detail on construction.
If you also seek a technical appraisal of the design of loudspeaker enclosures try the loudspeaker design cookbook (presently 7th Ed.) by Vance Dickason. While I have read Weams twice, (the second time just to make sure that I couldn't find what I was hoping for) every time I work on loudspeakers LDC will not be far away.
James
If you also seek a technical appraisal of the design of loudspeaker enclosures try the loudspeaker design cookbook (presently 7th Ed.) by Vance Dickason. While I have read Weams twice, (the second time just to make sure that I couldn't find what I was hoping for) every time I work on loudspeakers LDC will not be far away.
James
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I've read this book from cover to cover (OK admittedly it's not really designed for that) and found it an informative read. I was particularly grateful for the section on woodwork, the advantages and disadvantages of different materials and joints etc.
My only gripe is that the book could have had a small section on active speakers. Though active speakers are technically a speaker and an amplifier, I would have found such a section more useful than the extended section on speaker positioning, which isn't technically speaker design either.
But overall, a comprehensive guide with useful examples.
My only gripe is that the book could have had a small section on active speakers. Though active speakers are technically a speaker and an amplifier, I would have found such a section more useful than the extended section on speaker positioning, which isn't technically speaker design either.
But overall, a comprehensive guide with useful examples.
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Good guide to making box and ported speakers
I was after a guide to help me rebuild some ported speakers I made from a kit in the 1980's. Using this book I was able to select suitable replacement bass drivers and tune the new... Read more
Published 7 months ago by DaveC
Very interesting book, but limited in scope
David Weems provides a great deal of interesting information and formulae on the theory of loudspeaker design, but this only covers a limited range of types of speaker cabinet. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr. A. J. McHutchison
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A poor book, average information laid out in an outdated way with a chapter devoted to out of date computer program (1980 ish) Hardly any information on testing in a evaluative... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Christian
...a good speaker design book!
excellent book to learn the basics of building speakers. Its 'very simple, but it is also very complete. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Andre Gettatelli
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I bought this book with a purpose in mind. I wanted to get my feet wet in designing and building a loudspeaker enclosure. This book satisfied all my expectations. Read more
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