Designing, Building, and Testing Your Own Speaker System with Projects

Introduction<br/>1 How a Speaker Works<br/>Parts of a Speaker<br/>Frequency Response<br/>Transient Response<br/>Dispersion<br/>Cone Resonance<br/>Compliance<br/>Damping<br/>Impedance<br/>Efficiency<br/>Power Rating<br/>Speaker Polarity<br/>Kinds of Drivers<br/>2 Kinds of Speaker Enclosures<br/>Functions of Enclosures<br/>Types of Enclosures<br/>Which Enclosure is Best?<br/>3 Speaker-Box Construction<br/>Desirable Enclosure Characteristics<br/>Enclosure Shape<br/>Speaker Placement<br/>Some Recent Trends in Enclosure Design<br/>Materials<br/>Extra Wall Treatment<br/>Construction Rules<br/>Finishing Your Speakers<br/>More Box-Construction Hints<br/>4 Closed-Box Speaker Systems<br/>Closed-Box Basics<br/>How to Fit Box Volume to Speaker<br/>Closed-Box Summary<br/>5 Ported-Box Speaker Systems<br/>Kinds of Ported Enclosures<br/>How Tuning Affects Response<br/>How Box Volume Affects Response<br/>Thiele Ported-Box Design<br/>Obtaining the Box and Port Dimensions<br/>Fine Tuning by Ear<br/>The Boom-Box Alignment<br/>The Double-Chamber Reflex<br/>How to Design a Double-Chamber Reflex<br/>Band-Pass Systems<br/>6 Crossover Networks<br/>Kinds of Crossover Networks<br/>How to Choose Crossover Frequencies to Match Drivers<br/>How to Make a Choke Coil<br/>L-Pads<br/>Real World Crossovers<br/>Where to Put a Crossover<br/>Impedance Equalizers<br/>Contour Networks and Notch Filters<br/>Resonant-Peak Filters<br/>Crossover Networks and Piezoelectric Tweeters<br/>7 Fun with a Computer Program<br/>Short Computer Programs<br/>LDP<br/>Programs for Driver Tests<br/>Programs for Box Design<br/>Programs for Box Tests<br/>Programs for Network Design<br/>Programs for Speaker Directivity<br/>8 How to Choose and Use Your Speakers<br/>Choosing a Speaker<br/>Using Your Speakers<br/>Kind of Wire<br/>Terminals<br/>How to Solder<br/>Your Listening Room<br/>Ideal Speaker Placement<br/>Balancing Your Speakers<br/>Protecting Your Speakers<br/>Extension Speakers<br/>9 Testing Your Speakers<br/>Listening Tests<br/>Critical Listening<br/>Tests with a Sound-Level Meter<br/>Frequency Correction with an Equalizer<br/>Polarity Tests<br/>Damping Test<br/>Using Test Equipment<br/>Impedance<br/>Free–Air Resonance<br/>Driver Q<br/>Tests for Vvs<br/>Box Tests<br/>Notch Filter Test<br/>10 Projects<br/>Project 1: A simple mini-speaker<br/>Project 2: A low-cost closed-box speaker system<br/>Project 3: A ported-box mini-speaker<br/>Project 4: A ported-box compact speaker<br/>Appendices<br/>A Useful Formulas<br/>Electrical Units Used in Speaker Circuits<br/>Ohm’s Law for Speakers<br/>Reactance and Resonance<br/>Conversion Factors for Speaker Compliance<br/>Speaker Formulas for Constant-Voltage Sound-Distribution Systems<br/>Choosing Impedance-Matching Transformers<br/>Useful Speaker-Design Formulas and Procedures<br/>B Wire Data for Homemade Coils<br/>C Computer Programs<br/>D Mail-Order Houses<br/>Glossary<br/>Index<br/>About the Author