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Loudspeaker Design Cookbook by Vance Dickason

Vance Dickason

Vance Dickason is a loudspeaker designer, consultant to a wide range of loudspeaker manufacturers, and a published author.Dickason has been working as a professional in the loudspeaker industry since 1974, when he founded Speaker Research Associates ....

is a resource for the design and construction of audio

Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...

loudspeakers.

Chapter 0. How Loudspeakers Work
Chapter 1. Closed-Box Low-Frequency Systems
Chapter 2. Vented-Box
Bass reflex
A Bass reflex system is a type of loudspeaker enclosure that uses the sound from the rear side of the diaphragm to increase the efficiency of the system at low frequencies as compared to a typical closed box loudspeaker or an infinite baffle mounting.A reflex port is the distinctive feature of a...

Low-Frequency Systems
Chapter 3. Passive-Radiator
Passive radiator (speaker)
A speaker enclosure using a passive radiator usually contains an "active driver" , and a "passive cone" . The active driver is a regular driver, and the passive is typically the same or similar, but without a voice coil and magnet assembly. It is only a suspended cone, not attached to a voice coil...

Low-Frequency Systems
Chapter 4. Transmission-Line Low-Frequency Systems
Chapter 5. Cabinet Construction: Shape and Damping
Chapter 6. Loudspeaker Baffles
Chapter 7. Passive and Active Crossover
Audio crossover
Audio crossovers are a class of electronic filter used in audio applications. Most individual loudspeaker drivers are incapable of covering the entire audio spectrum from low frequencies to high frequencies with acceptable relative volume and lack of distortion so most hi-fi speaker systems use a...

Networks
Chapter 8. Loudspeaker Testing
Chapter 9. CAD Software for Loudspeaker Design
Chapter 10. Home Theater
Home theater
A home theater or home theatre is a theater built in a home, designed to mimic commercial theater performance and feeling, more commonly known as a home cinema...

Loudspeakers
Chapter 11. Car Audio
Car audio
Car audio/video , auto radio, mobile audio, 12-volt and other terms are used to describe the sound or video system fitted in an automobile. While 12-volt audio and video systems are also used, marketed, or manufactured for marine, aviation, and buses, this article focuses on cars as the most common...

Loudspeakers
Chapter 12. Two System Designs

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