Master Handbook of Acoustics (TAB Electronics Technical Library) |
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F. Alton Everest
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Pages: 592 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0071360972
Pub: Tab Electronics
Pub date: 2000-10-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 121373
Reader Reviews:
OK in some respects flawed in others (0/0 people found this helpful)
As another reviewer has said this is hardly a 'Master' handbook but it does have some useful and interesting things to say to the beginner. What is most disappointing is that a textbook on acoustics, printed in 2001 (the date of this edition) stills uses imperial measurements! Anywhere that distance is discussed it is given in feet and inches. This is the 21st century right? A pretty lazy attempt at updating this text.
Fantastic (0/0 people found this helpful)
At over 600 pages, you certainly get your money's worth with this book. It is replete with information on the design of acoutical spaces, noise isolation, reverb time, control of room resonances, room modelling and numerous other related topics. I bought this book to gain a better understanding of acoustics for the design of a home studio and it certainly paid off. It will take you a while to get through this book, but you'll be able to amaze your friends (or bore them) with your in depth understanding of acoustics. Highly recommended.
Not a Masters' book but a good place to start. (15/16 people found this helpful)
This book is very well explained but lacks that which some may hope for from a book entitled 'The Master Handbook of Acoustics'.
If you are an 'acoustic enthusiast' and a knowledge of acoustic concepts is important to you, then, this would be worth buying - maybe an undergraduate physics/engineering student might also benefit from its approach.
However, if you are someone that wishes to go beyond, getting to the heart of problems like; noise/vibration control and acoustics, you should go for something like Frank Fahy's Engineering Acoustics, Kinsler and Frey, or, if you are up to it!, Pierce...
Outstanding!!!!! (3/5 people found this helpful)
To say that the Master Handbook of Acoustics is an 'incredibly comprehensive work' it's like saying that the Beatles were 'some band from Liverpool'. Without a doubt, a must-have. Better than that, buy two and enlighten a friend! :-)
Now really, this is the absolute definitive book on acoustics, covering topics ranging from sound propagation to room acoustics to absortion, diffusion, refraction, reflection, diffraction and everything else you can think of.
Perfect for anyone looking to upgrade their acoustics palet (2/3 people found this helpful)
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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