Sound System Engineering provides an accurate, complete and concise working tool for all those involved in audio engineering. This fully updated third edition runs the complete range of sound system design from the simplest all-analog paging system to the largest multipurpose digital systems. Written by two leading authorities in the field of audio engineering, this highly respected guide covers the fundamentals necessary for the understanding of today's systems as well as for those systems yet to come.

Features & Benefits

• A highly regarded reference, bringing you all the current technology and practice
• Details mathematics for audio systems and describes audio and acoustic instrumentation
• Provides you with an overall coverage of how the system works as a whole

• Mathematics for Audio Systems
• Using the decibel
• Interfacing Electrical and Acoustical Systems
• Loudspeaker Directivity and Coverage
• The Acoustic Environment
• Audio and Acoustic Measurements
• Large Room Acoustics
• Small Room Acoustics
• Designing for Acoustic Gain
• Designing for Speech Intelligibility
• Microphones
• Loudspeakers and Loudspeaker Arrays
• Signal Delay and Signal Synchronization
• Signal Processing
• Sound System Equalization
• Putting it all together and keeping it all together

• Appendix I Symbols and Abbreviations
• Appendix II Wiring Practices