Organizations
ALMA – The International Loudspeaker Association
Source of information, and networking opportunities for the global loudspeaker industry. Organizes symposia in the US, China and Europe. Active int he development of loudspeaker test standards.
AES – the Audio Engineering Society
Develops test & Measurement standards for a range of audio products and holds annual meetings and exhibition in the US and Europe.
TIA – Telecommunications Industry Association
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is the leading trade association representing the global information and communications technology (ICT) industries through standards development, government affairs, business opportunities, market intelligence, certification and world-wide environmental regulatory compliance
IEEE
A non-profit organization, IEEE is the world’s leading professional association for the advancement of technology. The IEEE name was originally an acronym for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Today, the organization’s scope of interest has expanded into so many related fields, that it is simply referred to by the letters I-E-E-E (pronounced Eye-triple-E).
Publications
VoiceCoil
Magazine for the Loudspeaker Insdustry.
Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook
Industry guide to loudspeaker products
Engineering Resources
DSPRelated.com
DSPRelated.com has been around since 1999 and has become over the years the most popular independent internet resource for DSP engineers around the world.
Wolfram MathWorld
Claims to be the Web’s most extensive math resource.
Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram|Alpha’s aims to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone by collecting and curating objective data and implementing known models, methods, and algorithms to compute whatever can be computed about anything.
MIT Open Courseware
Free online courses from MIT Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Books
People new to the industry or to using SoundCheck often ask us to point them in the direction of some good reference sources on acoustics, so we have compiled the following list. Please note that although some are out of print, they remain on the list as many companies probably own them, and often they are available used.
Title: Frequency Analysis
Author: R.B. Randall
Publication Status: out of print
ISBN-10: 8787355078
ISBN-13: 978-8787355070
Title: Fundamentals of Hearing
Author: William A Yost
Publication Status: available from Amazon and other vendors
ISBN-10: 0123704731
ISBN-13: 978-0123704733
Title: Audio Transducers
Author: Earl Geddes
Publication Status: available from Amazon and other vendors
ISBN-10: 097220850X
ISBN-13: 978-0972208505
Title: Acoustics & Electroacoustics
Author: Mario Rossi
Publication Status: out of print
ISBN-10: 0890062552
ISBN-13: 978-0890062555
Title: Sound Reproduction– Loudspeakers and Rooms
Author: Floyd E Toole
Publication Status: available from Amazon and other vendors
ISBN-10: 0240520092
ISBN-13: 978-0240520094
Title: Loudspeaker Design Cookbook
Author: Vance Dickason
Publication Status: available from Amazon, Old Colony, and other vendors
ISBN-10: 0240520092
ISBN-13: 978-0240520094
Title: Acoustic Noise Measurements
Author: J.R. Hassall
Publication Status: out of print
ISBN-10: 8787355213
ISBN-13: 978-8787355216
There are many more good-looking acoustics books that we have not personally read available from Old Colony.
