★ = Recommended
| How to Build Speaker Enclosures Alexis Badmaieff & Don Davis, © 1966 Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, IN |
general, port tuning & testing, chokes & crossovers (dated but interesting) |
| Fundamentals of Acoustics 2nd Ed. Lawrence E. Kinsler & Austin R. Frey, © 1962 John Wiley and Sons, New York and Toronto |
general, Helmholtz resonance, Q, spherical acoulstical waves & dispersion |
| Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers 8th Ed. T. Baumeister / Eugene Avallone / T. Baumeister III © 1978 McGraw Hill Book Co. |
reactance, wire gage data |
| The Audio Cyclopedia, 2nd Edition 1969 Howard M. Tremaine, Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, IN |
general, crossover phase shifts |
| American Institute of Physics Handbook © 1957 McGraw Hill Book Co. |
directional radiation, directivity, Helmholtz resonance |
| Allied Electronics Data Handbook May 1962 |
reactance, coils, wire gages, voltage-power ratios, dB |
| Modern College Physics Richards, Sears, Whehr, & Zemansky, © 1962 Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Inc. |
self inductance, reactance |
| How to Design and Construct Passive Crossovers © 1980 Robert Bernard |
choke coils, inductance formula, metallized polyester capacitors (has many errors) |
| ★Designing, Building & Testing Your Own Speaker System David B. Weems, © 1981 Tab Books #1364 |
general, Q, dimension ratios, good summary Theile / Small / Keele port design criteria |
| ★★How to Design, Build & Test Complete Speaker Systems David B. Weems, © 1978 Tab Books #BK-003 |
similar to above but more detail and background |
| Handbook of Noise & Vibration Control, 2nd Ed. 1974 Trade & Technical Press, Ltd., Mordan, Surrey, England |
psychoacoustics, ISO equal loudness contours, risk damage levels |
| Acoustic Design and Noise Control Michael Rettinger © 1973 Chemical Publishing Co., Inc. |
archetectural considerations, good bibliography |
| Noise and Vibration Control Leo L. Beraneck © 1971 McGraw Hill Book Co. |
sound power, measurement & control techniques |
| ★★Acoustical Engineering Harry F. Olson, © 1957 D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc. |
bible of electroacoustics (out of print) |
| Electro Voice Guide to Speaker Enclosure Construction circa 1980 Electro Voice promotional |
general "rules"; proportions, vents, bracing |
| Building Hi-Fi Speaker Systems M. D. Hull © 1980 N. V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken, Eindhoven, the Netherlands |
general, crossovers, some European conventions |
| The Master Handbook of Acoustics F. Alton Everest © 1981 Tab Books, Inc. |
fundamentals of sound, hearing, 1/3 octave pink noise |
| Sound System Engineering Don & Carolyn Davis, © 1975 Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, IN |
commercial application examples (dated) |
| The Active Filter Handbook Frank P. Tedeschi © 1979 Tab Books, Inc. |
op-amps, bi-amping, active crossovers |
| ★★Loudspeakers, An anthology of articles on loudspeakers from the pages of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 1 through Vol. 25 (1953-1977) © 1980 Audio Engineering Society Inc. |
broad source of technology, incl. benchmark papers of Olson, Novak, Klipsch, Theile, Small, Keele, Kaminski |
| Loudspeakers Vol. 2, An anthology of articles on loudspeakers from the pages of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 26 through Vol. 31 (1978-1983) © 1984 Audio Engineering Society, Inc. |
not as useful & practical as vol. 1 (above) |
| ★The Loudspeaker Design Cookbook, 4th Ed. Vance Dickason © 1991 Audio Amateur Press, Peterborough, NH |
general reference for nearly all aspects of loudspeaker construction |
| ★AN-446: A 150W IC Op Amp Simplifies Design of Power Circuits Robert J. Widlar, Mineo Yamatake © 1995 National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA |
Application Notes for National LM12CL power op-amp, but also good ref. for amplifier circuit features |
Last tinkered with October 3, 2005 - R. A. Booty
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