High performance loudspeakers

✍ Scribed by Martin Colloms

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 421
• Edition: 3rd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

I agree entirely that this book is flawed.
On face value, it seems that the book is wonderfully comprehensive and covers most you would like to know.
Delve deeper, attempt to read it and its incoherent, illogical, and plain poorly written.
Equations are given without adequate explanations of parameters, where the equations come from, there is little logical structure and its impossible to gain an appreciation of the big picture.
Anyone wishing to understand speakers will come away more confused and wonder where it all fits in, why dispersion is relevant, directivity, its just not explained, little about what the impedance curve means, next to nothing about phase.
I have read colloms' reviews of equipment and he is plain boring using flowery words to impress, fortunately this book is not like that, but it is not the book to get to find what you seek.
I don't know any that are yet, thiele isn't explained, in fact the whole lot simply isn't logical.
don't bother with this unless its very cheap.