Books?

[exhausted mule]

hey,

i'm about to go order a few books.

one for sure i'm gonna get is the Loudspeaker design cookbook 6th ED by Vance Dickason.

now i remember reading about another book that was excelent in baffle and crossover design.

was it Designing, Building and testing your own speaker system by David B. Weems?

if not... what other book can you guy recomend for complex crossover systems and baffle measurements?

Thanks in advance.

Good luck to all.

 

[Hugo Rodriguez]

I shall not recommend the book of David Wheems. I beleive it is at a Radio Shack level.

Better is "High Performance Loudspeakes" of Martin Colloms, available in "Old Colony Soud Labs" and probably "Amazon.com"

Regards

 

[wintermute]

I have both weems and the cookbook 6th Edition, i think that the weems book is a much better book for the novice, if I'd started with the cookbook, I may have given up, and continued to throw things together and see what happened rather than learn the theory, the cookbook is a great reference, but is pretty technical and could be daunting for the beginner.

The weems doesn't really have much huge detail in it for baffle and crossover design that I can remember, but it's great for getting into the theory without having a brain explosion, it does from memory cover things like baffle step, zobels, notch filters etc though not at an advanced level .... I have just purchased Joe D'appolito's "testing loudspeakers" and Dickasons "Loudspeaker recipes book 1, four two way speakers".

Both look very good but I haven't got my teeth into them yet.

Tony.

 

[exhausted mule]

thanks for the responses.

that's exactly what i was looking for.

 

[pinkmouse]

I'll second D'appolito's book. It isn't bedtime reading, but it is a very thorough treatment of the subject.

 

[anatech]

I will give the book by Weems a vote. It's only as good as what you get out of it by experimenting. I think it's a first rate starter book.

I think the RS version is different than the one for normal consumption.

-Chris

 

[exhausted mule]

the RS version?

 

[anatech]

Yes,
Radio Shock carried one edition featuring mostly RS drivers. Guess where it was sold?

Normally it's a Tab publication #3274, the RS version is Tab #3374, third edition.

-Chris

 

[anatech]

Ahh, original was Tab #1064. Smaller and thicker. I bought this in 1979 (that long ago?? eeeek, I'm getting old!)

-Chris

 

[f4ier]

Search is your friend

Try these books.

The FRD Group has lots of articles worth reading as well.

Good luck!