All items tagged with book review (21)
Book Review: Bob Cordell’s Designing Audio Circuits and Systems
December 4, 2024 by Jan Didden

Book Review: Bob Cordell’s Designing Audio Circuits and Systems

Designing Audio Circuits and Systems is a surprising effort by the author and one that deserves careful exploration. A true compendium of lessons in audio that reflects Bob Cordell’s long-standing track record of designing audio equipment as well as advanced test equipment. The vast content contained in this book makes it an essential reference for anyone designing audio circuits, including excellent “hands-on” material for anyone starting to experiment in audio electronics.
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Sharing the Knowledge. audioXpress October 2024 Is Now Available!
September 12, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Sharing the Knowledge. audioXpress October 2024 Is Now Available!

Read the extended Show Report of the 5th International AES Conference on Automotive Audio. Santiago Rayes (GRAS Acoustics) explains the latest advances in Measurement Microphones for Automotive Testing. Reinhold Lutz writes about Eliminating Speaker Doppler Distortion, René Christensen shares an exercise of Double Bass Arrays, and Joerg Panzer (R&D Team) and Patrick Macey (PACSYS) share their Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of an Unusually Shaped Horn. Jan Didden reviews Bob Cordell’s latest book, “Designing Audio Circuits and Systems”.
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A Look Inside Douglas Self’s "Small Signal Audio Design" 4th edition
April 3, 2024 by Jan Didden

A Look Inside Douglas Self’s "Small Signal Audio Design" 4th edition

Whether it is power amplifiers, vinyl reproduction preamplifiers, active crossover filters or, as in this case, small-signal circuits for a very wide range of applications, Douglas Self is one of those authors who consistently has produced reference works about technical audio. You may think that as a fourth edition, it would just be a refinement on the three editions that went before it but Self always adds new material and new insights to make it worthwhile to get this new book.
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Measure Your Audio and Evolve Your Design Skills with audioXpress March 2024
February 12, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Measure Your Audio and Evolve Your Design Skills with audioXpress March 2024

The March 2024 issue of audioXpress includes an overview of the latest Audio Test and Measurement solutions, a review of the Listen SoundCheck 21 and AmpConnect 621 test suite, and a tribute to 20 years of Room EQ Wizard (REW). Learn how to build a True-RMS Voltmeter and what's behind the myth of Second Harmonic Distortion. Learn how motion feedback technologies can be applied to speakers, and how our hearing process affects our audio listening experiences, and much more. Dive in now!
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Book Review: An Exploration of Rock and Pop Venues, Acoustic and Architectural Design
July 20, 2023 by Richard Honeycutt

Book Review: An Exploration of Rock and Pop Venues, Acoustic and Architectural Design

In its regular Sound Control column, Richard Honeycutt explored this book by Niels Werner Adelman-Larsen., first published in 2014. This review covers the second edition, published in 2021, which is available in e-book, softcover, and hard-cover. The book was referenced in previous Sound Control articles and details an interesting study of the acoustics for rock and pop concerts and the differences in the acoustical requirements for these types of music. An important and updated perspective on modern acoustics. This article was originally published in audioXpress, June 2023.
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Book Review: Learning Audio Testing and Measurements
July 12, 2023 by Jan Didden

Book Review: Learning Audio Testing and Measurements

For those who need to refresh their knowledge or learn about audio test and measurements, Jan Didden reviews a great - and big! - book on the topic. Audio Tests & Measurements by Igor S. Popovitch is one of the many self-published works by this proficient writer based in Australia, also the author of several popular books on vacuum tube amplifiers. This particular book runs about 180 pages, but that is deceiving as the book’s format (A4 size) is about twice the size of most soft cover books.
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Book Review: Burkhard Vogel’s Slopes and Levels. Spice Models to Simulate Vintage Op-Amp Noise
June 21, 2023 by Marcel van de Gevel

Book Review: Burkhard Vogel’s Slopes and Levels. Spice Models to Simulate Vintage Op-Amp Noise

Interested in accurately simulating the noise of op-amp circuits? Audio electronics expert Burkhard Vogel wrote a book that addresses this relevant topic for any audio circuit designer that doesn't want to rely just on manufacturers own models. In this review, Marcel van de Gevel explored the full book after he read Vogel's introduction, explaining that some manufacturer-supplied simulation models are way off.
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Remote Recording in the Rock Era: David Hewitt’s On the Road
May 17, 2023 by Scott Dorsey

Remote Recording in the Rock Era: David Hewitt’s On the Road

For an enjoyable suggestion, after you finish reading audioXpress, Scott Dorsey reviewed an interesting book written by David Hewitt, one of the many well-known engineers who made history doing live recordings of rock concerts during the 1970s and 1980s - and continued to pioneer this approach to make great recordings of live events. On the Road: Recording the Stars in a Golden Era of Live Music, is an interesting first person testimony of some of the greatest moments in music recording history. This article was originally published in audioXpress, April 2023.
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Spatial, Immersive, Inside and Out Automotive Sound in audioXpress June 2023
May 11, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Spatial, Immersive, Inside and Out Automotive Sound in audioXpress June 2023

audioXpress June 2023 combines must-read articles on Automotive Audio, essential knowledge, cutting-edge R&D, practical build projects and much more. Learn about the latest innovations and sound design for Electric Vehicles. Read about DSP tuning in automotive audio. Learn about Audioscenic's extraordinary journey in 3D audio beamforming technology, build a new signal amplifier and processor for the ACH-01 Accelerometer, and much more.
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The MEMS Microphone Book- What's Different (And So Promising) With MEMS Microphones
February 18, 2022 by Joao Martins

The MEMS Microphone Book- What's Different (And So Promising) With MEMS Microphones

In this article I share my early impressions of The MEMS Microphone Book by Mikko Suvanto. 21 years in the making, this is a reference book with over 600 pages and I decided that I should write about it here ASAP, because I believe that the work deserves attention and I'm confident enough on the quality of the content to recommend it. The MEMS Microphone Book, "A practical guide to reliable high-quality sound capturing with miniature microphones" (ISBN 978-952-94-5660-4) is available and my article details what it contains and who should read it.
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