Loudspeakers

<p><em>Loudspeakers: For Music Recording and Reproduction, Second Edition</em> is a comprehensive guide, offering the tools and understanding needed to cut out the guesswork from loudspeaker choice and set-up. </p><p>Philip Newell and Keith Holland, with the assistance of Sergio Castro and Julius Newell, combine their years of experience in the design, application, and use of loudspeakers to cover a range of topics from drivers, cabinets, and crossovers, to amplifiers, cables, and surround sound. Whether using loudspeakers in a recording studio, mastering facility, broadcasting studio, film post-production facility, home, or musician’s studio, or if you simply aspire to improve your music-production system this book will help you make the right decisions.</p><p>This new edition provides significant updates on the topics of digital control, calibration, and cinema loudspeaker systems.</p> <p>Introduction <br>1. What Is a Loudspeaker?<br>2. Diversity of Design <br>3. Loudspeaker Cabinets <br>4. Horns<br>5. Crossovers <br>6. Amplifiers and Loudspeaker Cables - A General Review<br>7. Loudspeaker Behaviour in Rooms <br>8. Form Follows Function <br>9. Subjective and Objective Assessment <br>10. The Mix, the Music and the Monitors - The Instability of Perception <br>11. Low Frequency and Transient-Response Dilemmas <br>12. The Challenges of Surround Sound </p><p>13. Loudspeakers for Cinema Soundtrack Mixing</p><p>14. What to Measure: And Why - The Influence of Advanced Measurement and Psychoacoustic Concepts on Loudspeaker Design<br>Glossary of Terms<br>Index</p>