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Summary: Unique (but with some mistakes)
Review: (This book is a must. I am a teacher at Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, and this book is one of the texts I use. I recommend it everywhere. It is easy to understand and comprehensive for all levels. I mean, it is useful for the beginners and also for graduate students. Maybe it needs a spanish translation. It is unfair that for most of my students the book is hard to read because of the language).
This was my last comment, oh, yeah. But it was before the fourth edition, in which I expected to see corrections of obvious mistakes found in previous editions. Take this: page 35-36, "after the arrival of the direct sound", uh uh, big mistake (who is the proofreader?), another pearl: page 34: log(0.22/1) is always a negative number! come on! The same mistakes in four editions? unacceptable. I had to correct these mistakes in my classroom to get my students on the way.
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Summary: complete and readable
Review: excellent book, very comprehensive. i've been reading it for seven years and still enjoy it. the only thing i wish they'd do is fix the chart next to the 'bolt area' (13-2, louden, F) and the 2,1,3, oblique mode listing on table 15-1 (it's not tangential). other than that, it's my all time favourite book on acoustics - very worth it.
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Summary: easy to read, easy to understand
Review: I like this book: it's mainly about acoustic principles and room acoustics. It's easy to read (even for a beginner) and is not too superficial. One of the few audio books I still return to every now and then.
I would buy this book again.
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Summary: Essential and substantial
Review: If you are in the business of sound and speakers you simply know it is required reading for proficiency in the profession.
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Summary: Not a Handbook of Acoustics
Review: If you believe that the world of acoustics only consists of rooms and concert halls, this is the introductory book for you.Otherwise, the treatment of contemporary topics is piecemeal. The introductory material is not sufficient to inform the more recent elements (the chapter on digital sound is laughable). It is well worth the money for room acoustics. It should indicate that specific focus in the title. No where will you find psychoacoustics, instrument acoustics, microphone issues, and true recording issues.
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Summary: One of the best to learn!
Review: Is a very good book. That is what wizard made. The book give you a solid foundation. If you want to learn fast, then this is the book for you! Of course, if you want to come in deep more, included studio and live recording, synthesizer programming, mac & pc recording softwares, how to eq effexts and mastering, designing your CD covert, making your video clip, o just promoting, copyright, publishing, biggest resource and so on, try to buy "Music Technology & Live Sound" plus "Music Marketing", a pair of cheap books bilingüal (spanish and english)...I use this 3 books a lot. You must read its!!!
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Summary: Perfect for anyone looking to upgrade their acoustics palet
Review: This book can be a tremendous asset to anyone interested in cleaning up their audio listening invironment. It would be difficult to imagine myself not having this book around now with all the wealth of information it possesses. Highly recomended.
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Summary: Good for what it is
Review: This book is excellent as an introduction to room acoustics. But it has no focus on a myriad of other acoustical issues. It should be called 'Master Handbook of Room Acousitics.' The chapter on digital sound is laughable and perfunctory. An introduction to specifics of digital sound sampling is essential in a modern book. Some aspects of psychoacoustics are poorly presented; you should consult Roederer's Introduction to the Physics and Psychophysics of Music for this area. The contributed chapters are not particularly helpful, and their style diverges from that established by the author. These are rather technical, and the material in the book on digital sound, Fourier Analysis, and related areas (including ray tracing) is inadequate to prepare the reader for the more complex topics.
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Summary: Not so good
Review: This book is not so good as I think. It's very superficial.
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Summary: Everything you wanted to know about acoustics....and more.
Review: This is a very comprehensive acoustics handbook.
Well explained and detailed. From the basic sound propagation formulae, to the studio or control room treatment.
It deals easily with what many people could call complex physical terms and parameters, in such a way anyone with basic knowledge can approach painless.
Highly recomendable even for the home audiophile who wants to extract the most from its listening room.
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