Build your own speakers! Thousands of hobbyists, students and electronics salespeople and technicians have turned to this best-selling guide for expert advice and a collection of simple-to-advanced speaker system projects. Now in its fourth edition, it continues to set the standard for accessible, up-to-the-minute guidance on designing, building, and testing speakers that sound as good as any system you can buy - for hundreds less!

This definitive do-it-yourself book on creating and testing all kinds of speaker systems is updated to cover the latest makes and models. It also includes new speaker tests, expanded information on crossover networks, techniques for designing double-chamber reflex enclosures, practical rather than theoretical dimension charts, and more. The book provides you with concise, step-by-step instructions for building speakers, and teaches you how to choose speakers that are best suited for various specific uses, set up a home system that will give you optimal performance, and critically evaluate speakers by ear if you lack test equipment. The included list of driver and system components suppliers helps you get started right away.

Paperback, 256 pages Published by McGraw-Hill Publication date: November 1996 Size (inches): 0.65 x 9.10 x 7.29 ISBN: 007069429X List price: $19.95 Our price: $15.95

Table of Contents 1. How a Speaker Works 2. Kinds of Speaker Enclosures 3. Speaker-Box Construction 4. Closed-Box Speaker Systems 5. Ported-Box Speaker Systems 6. Crossover Networks 7. Fun with a Computer Program 8. How to Choose and Use Your Speakers 9. Testing Your Speakers 10. Projects App. A. Useful Formulas App. B. Wire Data for Homemade Coils App. C. Computer Programs App. D. Mail-Order Houses Glossary