Record Id: 12664784 (Australian Library Collections)
Author: Weems, David B.
Title: Designing, building, and testing your own speaker system with projects / David B. Weems.
Edition: 4th ed.
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1997.
Description: 223 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0070694281 (t)
007069429X (p)
LC Call Number: TK9968
Dewey Number: 621.382/84
Summary: 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.
Contents: 1. How a Speaker Works -- 2. Kinds of Speaker Enclosures -- 3. Speaker-Box Construction -- 4. Closed-Box Speaker Systems -- 5. Ported-Box Speaker Systems -- 6. Crossover Networks -- 7. Fun with a Computer Program -- 8. How to Choose and Use Your Speakers -- 9. Testing Your Speakers -- 10. Projects -- App. A. Useful Formulas -- App. B. Wire Data for Homemade Coils -- App. C. Computer Programs -- App. D. Mail-Order Houses.
Notes: Includes index.
Subjects: Loudspeakers -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals.
Language: English
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