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About Richard Honeycutt

Dr. Richard Honeycutt fell in love with acoustics after his father brought home a copy of Leo Beranek’s landmark text on the subject when Richard was in the ninth grade. Richard is a member of the North Carolina chapter of the Acoustical Society of America. Richard has his own business involving musical instruments and sound systems. He has been an active acoustics consultant since he received his PhD in electroacoustics from the Union Institute in 2004. Richard’s work includes architectural acoustics, sound system design, and community noise analysis.

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Predictive Acoustics and Acoustical Modeling Software: EASE

March 6, 2019 by Richard Honeycutt

Predictive Acoustics and Acoustical Modeling Software: EASE

From March to August 2014, in its Sound Control column dedicated to acoustics, Richard Honeycutt reviewed and wrote a series of articles on the evolution of predictive acoustics and acoustical modeling software, including a review of some of the available tools. This fourth article in the series discusses Enhanced Acoustic Simulator for Engineers (EASE), an engineering design and analysis software for optimizing acoustics. This article was originally published in audioXpress, June 2014.

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Predictive Acoustics and Acoustical Modeling Software: CATT-Acoustic

February 27, 2019 by Richard Honeycutt

Predictive Acoustics and Acoustical Modeling Software: CATT-Acoustic

From March to August 2014, in its Sound Control column dedicated to acoustics, Richard Honeycutt reviewed and wrote a series of articles on the evolution of predictive acoustics and acoustical modeling software, including a review of some of the available tools. This third article in the series discusses CATT-Acoustic, a software for room acoustics prediction, auralization, studio stereo, and surround reverberation, and one of the leading modeling programs for architectural acoustics. This article was originally published in audioXpress, May 2014.

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Predictive Acoustics and Acoustical Modeling Software: Bose Modeler

February 19, 2019 by Richard Honeycutt

Predictive Acoustics and Acoustical Modeling Software: Bose Modeler

From March to August 2014, in its Sound Control column dedicated to acoustics, Richard Honeycutt reviewed and wrote a series of articles on the evolution of predictive acoustics and acoustical modeling software, including a review of some of the available tools. This second article in the series focused on one of those available tools: Bose Modeler. This article was originally published in audioXpress, April 2014.

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Predictive Acoustics and Acoustical Modeling Software

January 30, 2019 by Richard Honeycutt

Predictive Acoustics and Acoustical Modeling Software

From March to August 2014, in his Sound Control column dedicated to acoustics, Richard Honeycutt reviewed and wrote a series of articles on the evolution of predictive acoustics and acoustical modeling software, including a review of some of the available tools. This first article in the series revisits Sabine’s reverberation time equation, all the way to the use of impulse responses and ray-tracing and convolution auralization techniques using modern computers. This article was originally published in audioXpress, March 2014.

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Book Review: Examining Fundamental Amplifier Techniques with Electron Tubes, 2nd Edition

September 26, 2018 by Richard Honeycutt

Book Review: Examining Fundamental Amplifier Techniques with Electron Tubes, 2nd Edition

Richard Honeycutt reviews the second and more extensive edition of this electronics classic, Fundamental Amplifier Techniques with Electron Tubes. He gives high marks to this massive tome that provides useful information about electron tube technology, including their power supplies, for the design and DIY construction of these electron tube audio amplifiers.

Differences in Amp Sound: How Do We Find the Truth?

August 29, 2018 by Richard Honeycutt

Differences in Amp Sound: How Do We Find the Truth?

audioXpress readers are well familiarized with Richard Honeycutt's Hollow State column. In many of his articles, Honeycutt explored distortion in a quest to find the origin of “tube sound.” In this article, he takes a more general view of possible amplifier differences, solid- or hollow-state, focusing on different amplifiers’s differences in sounds, and a correct subjective evaluation process of components and systems. This article was originally published in audioXpress, October 2012.

Popular Preamp Tubes

April 11, 2018 by Richard Honeycutt

Popular Preamp Tubes

Where do tubes come from? In this article Richard Honeycutt revisits the history of tube electronics, from its early invention to the widespread adoption in radios and television receivers. And because familiarity simplifies tube selection, the article explains where some of the most common tube types can be applied in todays designs on power amplifiers and pre-amplifiers and tube stages. This article was originally published in audioXpress, April 2013 as part of the Hollow-State Electronics monthly column by Richard Honeycutt.

Selecting a Power Tube

April 3, 2018 by Richard Honeycutt

Selecting a Power Tube

In this article, Richard Honeycutt provides a brief description of the main tube types used in audio applications, from triodes to tetrodes and pentodes, describing its uses, features and potential benefits. If you are looking for a quick reference reading about tubes that have been used in audio amplification this article is a great start. This article was originally published in audioXpress, May 2013 as part of the Hollow-State Electronics monthly column by Richard Honeycutt.

Smartphone Apps for Sound Measurement

February 4, 2017 by Richard Honeycutt

Smartphone Apps for Sound Measurement

In audioXpress' November 2015 Sound Control column, Richard Honeycutt, addressed the topic of Smartphone Apps for Sound Measurement. Touching on the challenges and benefits of the smartphone approach as a mobile test and measurement device, as well as reviewing available apps for iOS (Apple), Android, and Microsoft Windows, this an article that needs to be broadly shared while it is still up to date. Read the full article now available online.

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Driver Selection for Multi-Way Speakers

November 11, 2015 by Richard Honeycutt

Driver Selection for Multi-Way Speakers

It was recognized early on that the speakers benefited from having separate low-frequency and high-frequency drivers, each optimized for its own frequency range. Consequently, names were needed to easily identify the various speakers in a cabinet. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, January 2012.

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