Fully expanded to cover the latest methods and software tools, this book presents clear explanations of acoustic phenomena and provides a hands-on approach to room design.

Build your own acoustic environments such as recording studios, control rooms, and home listening rooms with expert insights from two engineering professionals.

Learn how to perform acoustic measurements, choose room dimensions, assign speaker placement, analyze response curves, and design and install sound absorbers and diffusers. You will also find details on how to fine-tune room reverberation, minimize external noise, and apply psychoacoustic concepts.

The book explains how to:
• Determine how sound propagates in open and enclosed spaces
• Measure sound-pressure levels and work with decibels
• Analyze the characteristics of room modal resonances
• Treat rooms for optimal early reflections, reverberation, and diffusion
• Minimize acoustic distortion, comb-filter effects, and HVAC interference
• Construct high-quality stereo and surround-sound listening rooms
• Design personal and professional recording studios and control rooms
• Understand the acoustics of auditoriums and concert halls
• Optimize room designs using measurement, modeling, and auralization software


Contents
Introduction
1 Fundamentals of Sound
2 Sound Levels and the Decibel
3 Sound in the Free Field
4 The Perception of Sound
5 Signals, Speech, Music, and Noise
6 Reflection
7 Diffraction
8 Refraction
9 Diffusion
10 Comb-Filter Effects
11 Reverberation
12 Absorption
13 Modal Resonances
14 Schroeder Diffusers
15 Adjustable Acoustics
16 Control of Interfering Noise
17 Noise Control in Ventilating Systems
18 Acoustics of Listening Rooms
19 Acoustics of Small Recording Studios
20 Acoustics of Control Rooms
21 Acoustics of Audio/Video Rooms
22 Acoustics of Large Halls
23 Acoustic Distortion
24 Room Acoustics Measurement Software
25 Room Optimizer
26 Room Auralization
Biblography
Appendix
Glossary
Index

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