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| | Product Details | | Author: | Larry Mundy | | Paperback: | 118 pages | | Publisher: | Trafford Publishing | | Publication Date: | May 26, 2004 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1412029988 | | Package Length: | 10.5 inches | | Package Width: | 8.1 inches | | Package Height: | 0.5 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 9 reviews |
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31 of 32 found the following review helpful:
 Good for Construction - Bad for Design Jan 08, 2005
By QuixoticMan
"mfd"
This book DOES provide enough information to build pro loudspeakers. There is good coverage of pro loudspeaker construction, so if you want to know how to build a box, this is the book for you. When it comes to design, this book is very lacking. There is a fair section on cross over design (1st & 2nd order only). But when it comes to enclosure design, the author suggests the reader use speaker design software (not provided) with no guidance on what these programs do. Nice!
The book does a great job of emphasizing frequency response and efficiency matching, but some of the design examples are are a little unorthodox. Specifically, there is a 12" PA speaker design where the author recommends a 6dB cross over point of 4kHz. This may protect the horn, but sacrifices off axis frequency response. Most commercial 12" PA speakers will use a lower cross over point ~ 2kHz and use a 2nd or 3rd order cross over.
Bottom line, if you want to know how to build boxes, this is a good book. If you want to know how to design enclosures, you will need another book or software. I rated this book low because the title "Design and Build . . ." suggested to me that there would be better design guidelines. So while I rated this book one star, other readers may find this a useful reference for pro speaker construction.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Some good basic info here. May 08, 2008
By Artdawg5150
Not a bad book for those wanting a basic overview of speaker building. Maybe a little too "non-technical" for me. After reading the entire book in a day, I didn't get the feeling that I was ready to go out and build my first cabinet. A good first read but probably best when followed up with another more technical book afterwards.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Good book, with reservations Jan 09, 2010
By Bill Larson
Mundy discusses speaker cabinet building very well. Materials, bracing, and especially covering are very well covered. Simple construction employing easy woodworking techniques is emphasized. I especially appreciated the chapter on building 19" rack boxes for live sound electronics.
Speaker design is neglected, or at best short changed. If this is what you are after, find another book. This book was written for live-sound applications, per the title. If you are expecting high end home speakers, as another reviewer mentioned, this isn't the book for you. In fact, I don't think the carpet covering talked about in Mundy's book would be appropriate in many homes. As someone else mentioned, the design of the crossovers is a little too simple, but they work.
There is mention in the book that speakers for live sound environments are inherently different than speakers to audio reproduction. For reproduction, you don't want the speakers to add anything to the sound, simply reproduce the source. In live sound the speakers are part of the sound, emphasizing certain frequencies such as the singer's vocals (midrange) to punch this part out to the audience. Additional speakers are used for the drums, bass, flute, etc.
It does feel like this book was written with the idea of "I have a driver sitting here, how can I build a cabinet to use it for my band". Not a bad goal for a band, but not a goal for an audiophile for listening to classical music from their record player.
I do believe that along with this book, and some time and effort, anyone can build a quality live sound speaker system that rivals anything commercially available for a much more reasonable price. Or, turn it around, by spending a little more for the drivers and building the cabinets yourself, you can end up with a much better sound system than anything that you can buy for a comparable price.
Be aware that I found this book because of Mundy's postings on the Savano Music Online site. The book is a compilation of the web site, plus some additions. I have found that having the book in hand to be much simpler that printing out all of the web articles and then trying to keep track of them.
Larry Mundy has produced an excellent book for his goal. It is not a be-all or end-all to the area of speaker design but it does cover the basic needs of building speakers for live sound situations quite well. Thank you very much.
Good book on speakers. Apr 06, 2010
By M. J. Wilson
This book is an easy to read/understand book on solving choices about building your own loud speakers. I was kind of hoping it would have a little about amp choice as well, but no. However is a good speaker specific book.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Good beginners guide May 30, 2010
By Dr. A. Bruce
This book as the name suggests is about building speaker cabinets for live sound. It does not purport to deal with Hi-Fi speakers. Indeed it emphasises that there is a great deal of clear water between the demands of live sound and the real or imaginary world that is inhabited by audiophiles. The book is also quite clearly aimed at the beginner and quite appropriately, it assumes little existing knowledge of electronics and the techniques required to produce serviceable speaker cabinets for live sound. For people with much more extensive knowledge of electronics and acoustics, this is not the book for you and the title of the book ought to alert you to this.
This reviewer has taught for many years in various universities and believe me, teaching novices is not easy. This book is well set out and is written in plain English with a readily accessible style. To my knowledge, there is a lack of good basic texts that provide beginners with the necessary skills to tackle their own live sound projects. Consequently this book fills an important gap in the market. Also, Mundy to my mind provides a good basic foundation that other more advanced texts ignore. Take for example the required handling capacity of a tweeter in relation to a woofer. I have read a number of much more advanced texts on speaker cabinet design and all have remained frustratingly silent on this matter. Mundy makes it clear the handling capacity that is required of a tweeter, also indicating that such capacity needs to be much higher than a home Hi-Fi as live sound equipment produces music that is not compressed.
For those who might expect live sound equipment to be designed in the same elaborate manner as Hi-Fi, this is rarely the case. Ever since Leo Fender started pushing the stuff out of the door in the 1940s, live sound cabinets have tended to be designed to match the physical size of the amplifier being used, the size and number of speakers required to handle the amplifier's output and the size and weight that can be carried, sometimes up fire escapes - yes I've done it! Also to be blunt, there is the economics of what you can get out of an 8 x 4 sheet of Baltic birch ply.
For those wishing to access more extensive coverage of the issues dealt with in the book, log on to the Shevano music website at [...]
This is a very useful supplement to the book.
If asked for criticisms of the book, I would offer up three. I found the woodworking and general finishing a bit crude. Put this into context though, when I make cabinets, they are all box jointed, some are uncovered and utilise furniture quality finishes. Second, crossover design was a bit simplistic. I would probably debate whether a first or even second order crossover was able to protect the tweeter fully. But then again, for those who wish to develop their knowledge of crossover design, there are other texts and computer programmes that quite ably deal with crossover design. Finally, I would have liked to have seen a bit more in the way of referenced material that could lead the beginner to more advanced sources.
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