rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (03/14/85)
> Okay, I'll try once more. Any of you audiophreaks out there > know where I can get some good source material (books, etc.) > on designing and building my own speakers?... There are two books of collected papers from the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. These are NOT cookbooks in any sense of the word, but they have a lot of background. The "right" names are there--Klipsch, Villchur, Thiele, Small, Allison, Heyser (and others who are somewhat lesser known but perhaps more deserving mention). The papers are (by some criterion) the most significant ones published in JAES from '53-'83. It's unlikely that you'll read them cover-to-cover unless you're the type who read your PDE book thru before the course started just 'cause it was interesting. Still, it's nice to have the reference material. Technical background obviously required. Ordering info--I found the ad in Speaker Builder: LOUDSPEAKERS Volume 1 (1953-1977) LOUDSPEAKERS Volume 2 (1978-1983) To non-members of AES, each volume separately is $30; the set of 2 is $55. Send order with check to Audio Engineering Society 60 East 42nd St., Rm 2520 New York, NY 10165 -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind.