Designing, Building, and Testing Your Own Speaker System-- With Projects

by David B. Weems

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083063374X
• ISBN13: 9780830633746
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Tab Books
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

David Weems

This is a great resource for beginners as well as seasoned professionals. It is rooted in a solid foundation of basics and guides the reader though to practical real world designs. The information is presented in a straight ahead manor that makes it available to readers at all levels of expertise. This accessibility makes it one of the most valuable resource materials for your reference library. It has ability to advance the neophyte and ground the well seasoned professional in the essential building blocks of speaker design.

Still the Best Speaker Book for the Money!

I'm a big Weems fan! I bought the 1st edition ~25 years ago. I used the first edition to build dozens of Hi-Fi, Pro-Audio and Car loudspeaker systems. With my first edition getting pretty worn with use, so I recently purchased the 4th edition, and I am very pleased. There are other books, but Weems book is stell the best speaker book for the money! The 4th edition has been edited to the fundamental information required to design loudspeakers. In addition, Mr. Weems added design information on 3rd and 4th order cross over networks and added the governing equations to determine fb, f3 and Vb for closed and vented boxes. The BASIC source code for programs to design speaker and cross overs is also provided. Yea, the BASIC code is a little dated since most operating systems don't have a BASIC interpreter these days. I would like to see the programs downloadable (preferably in VB), but I have used the source code and the equations to write make my own VB application. Weems provides both exact solutions (for math lovers), and the "minimal math" approach as well. Either way, you need to do "some" math to correctly design a loudspeaker enclosure. Most folks, who have mastered high school algebra and can solve simple equations, should be able to use the charts and graphs and design boxes and cross over networks. I recommend this book for everyone from pro's to beginners. For the Physicists and Engineers out there, you may be a little disappointed that the derivation of the solutions are not presented. For beginners, if the design task seems overwhelming, this book will provide a great foundation to buy a kit from one of the online retailers. Either way, if I had to choose one speaker building book, this would be the one.

Highly Recommended

I bought the 1st edition of this book back around 1981 and have built both sealed and vented systems as well as fitted existing enclosures with just the right woofer, all with very happy results. I owe it all to what I've learned from this book. Thank you Mr. Weems! But alas, the ol' book has gotten worn so I decided a couple of weeks ago to order a new copy, the 4th edition. When it finally came I was very happy to see not only did it still retain all the information and programs I've grown to trust was still there, but has been expanded. There isn't the variety of projects as in the first edition but that didn't bother me because I've learned that by the time you get around to building the "projects" the components are usually discontinued anyway. BASIC programs isn't a problem for me but might be for some people as a lot of them may not even know what BASIC is or may not want to take the time to type them in. No need to worry though because you can order both the BASIC and Windows versions of the program through the book... If you like it, buy it.The Bottom line is, If your just an average joe, "like me" and you want to learn how build great sounding speakers that you'll be proud of.. without being a phd, or going broke.. then get this book.

Great for the novice

I bought this without ever having built, assembled or even worked on speakers. It guided me and explained everything I needed to build an couple of really hi-end speakers.

transmission lines.

this was my first book on my quest to learn all about speaker building. it is a very good starting place. i built the "tapered line transmission" speaker that he gives plans for and was completely satisfied. this particular design (transmission line)is probably one of the most forgiving designs. i've used several different drivers in the same box with success. his later editions have much more detail and he states what drivers he uses. the edition i got was an older one that never really stated what drivers he used in his projects. the newer editions use popular drivers that anyone can find on the net. this book is a good primer. the next step is "the loudspeaker design cookbook".