Product Description

An indispensable guide in the day-to-day work of designing sound systems. This accurate, complete, and concise tool is a necessary addition to the library of anyone involved in audio engineering.

Sound Systems Engineering is a a comprehensive text useful in the day-to-day work of designing sound systems. It is a practical manual that carefully examines a step-by-step method of accurately predicting such variables as acoustic gain, speech intelligibility, and required electrical input power while plans are still on the drawing board. This approach, described in 19 heavily illustrated, information packed chapters, can save your clients thousands of dollars.

Contains a history of audio.
Details audio mathematics.
Describes audio and acoustic instrumentation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32748 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 665 pages

Review
"Many books have been written about the subject in the last 50 years, but the book that certainly opened the eyes of many people going into audio is Sound System Engineering" - Sound & Video Contractor, April 2000 "...it is the first choice for my bookshelf." - Sound & Video Contractor, April 2000

Review
"Many books have been written about the subject in the last 50 years, but the book that certainly opened the eyes of many people going into audio is Sound System Engineering" - Sound & Video Contractor, April 2000

"...it is the first choice for my bookshelf." - Sound & Video Contractor, April 2000

Ingram
A comprehensive text useful in the day-to-day work of designing sound systems. It is a practical manual that carefully examines a step-by-step method of accurately predicting such variables as accoustic gain, clarity of sound, and required electrical input power while plans are still on the drawing board. Emphasizing the time-energy frequency analyzer, the authors discuss problems that might occur in a sound system as it evolves through design, installation, equalization, operation, and maintenance. A necessary addition to the library of anyone involved in audio engineering.

Customer Reviews

Great mid level text
We've used this book as both a historical reference to get our folks up to speed, and the material is still pertinent to predictive analysis today. I've been using it since the first edition and find it a useful part of a complete acoustics library.

This is my Bible!
Unfortunately, my English (I am Russian sound engineer living in Moscow) is not good enough to express how important is this book for me. Everything I know about sound systems (apart from my personal experience) I've learned from this book. I could only wish to see it some day to be published in Russian. I would translate it just for fun! There are so many myths in pro audio and sound system installation. This book helps to get rid of them. I read this book every day and every time learn something new. THANK YOU MR. DAVIS!!!

High expectations low return
Very esoteric, helpful if your having and argument about the physics of sound.... Old, out of date pictures and test instruments. Some of which haven't been around for ten years. Very little practical information, you read and read and read looking for some practical conclusions. Absolutely FILLED with mathematical calculations. I'm not put off by these but they are out of balance with there usefulness. This books seems like it was written to fulfill someones PHD requirements. There are some useful chapters on electrical or speaker basics but they seem included only to bring this book down from outer space.