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Third Edition
By
Don Davis, Don Davis and his wife, Carolyn, founded Synergetic Audio Concepts in 1972, retired in 1995. Don is a Senior member of the IEEE, Fellow
of the AES and has received the Heyser Award, Life Time Achievement Award from NSCA and from USITT, Recognition for participation in
the Brussels World Fair 1958 from the U.S. Dept. of State, and for the U.S. Exhibition in Moscow in 1959.
Eugene Patronis, Eugene Patronis is Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He has also served as
an industrial and governmental consultant in the fields of acoustics and electronics.
Description
Sound System Engineering Third Edition is a complete revision and expansion of the former work.
Written by two leading authorities in
the field of audio engineering, this highly respected guide covers the fundamentals necessary for the understanding of today's systems
as well as for those systems yet to come.
The space formerly occupied by outdated photographs of manufacturers? product and of older
system installations has now been filled with new measurements and discussions of the measurement process.
The ?Mathematics for Audio?
chapter has been expanded to include the mathematics of phasors. The ?Interfacing Electrical and Acoustic Systems? chapter has a completely
new section covering the analysis of alternating current circuits. Additionally, system gain structure is now treated by both the available
input power method and the voltage only method, complete with illustrations of each. All chapters dealing with loudspeaker directivity
and coverage, the acoustic environment, room acoustics, speech intelligibility, and acoustic gain appear in up to date versions. In addition
there is new material on signal delay and synchronization and equalization. There are completely new chapters on microphones, loudspeakers
and loudspeaker arrays including line arrays with steering and beam-width control, and signal processing, both analog and digital.
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book runs the gamut of sound system design from the simplest all-analog paging system to the largest multipurpose digital systems.
In
writing this third edition, the authors kept in mind the needs of sound system installers, sound system service technicians, and sound
system designers. All three groups will find the material to be useful for everyday work as well as beneficial in the furtherance of
their overall audio education.
Audience
Sound engineers, audio contractors, consultants and technicians
Contents
1. Mathematics for Audio Systems
2. Using the decibel
3. Interfacing Electrical and Acoustical Systems
4. Loudspeaker Directivity and
Coverage
5. The Acoustic Environment
6. Audio and Acoustic Measurements
7. Large Room Acoustics
8. Small Room Acoustics
9. Designing
for Acoustic Gain
10. Designing for Speech Intelligibility
11. Microphones
12. Loudspeakers and Loudspeaker Arrays
13. Signal Delay
and Signal Synchronization
14. Signal Processing
15. Sound System Equalization
16. Putting it all together and keeping it all together
Appendix 1 Symbols and Abbreviations
Appendix 11 Wiring Practices
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Hardbound, 504 pages, publication date: SEP-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80830-7
ISBN-10: 0-240-80830-4
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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