Loudspeaker and Headphone Handbook, 3rd Edition

Preface to the third edition

There have been significant advances in technology during the six years since the publication of the second edition of this book. These have been driven by increasingly more sophisticated computer-aided design systems and digital audio processing, and have affected research procedures, the loudspeakers themselves and the range of user applications.

My starting point for preparing this new edition was to approach the original authors and invite them to revise their texts to bring them fully up to date, and this is mainly what has happened. However, there are exceptions. For example, the authors of Chapters 1 and 2 (Ford and Kelly) were planning to retire and asked to be excused. These chapters have therefore been rewritten ...