THE NEW STEREO SOUNDBOOK, SECOND EDITION
BY RON STREICHER AND F. ALTON EVEREST
"I strongly recommend this excellent volume... Once you've read this book you will have a more complete understanding of stereophonic sound." - Leonard Feldman in his Audio Magazine review of the first edition.
The 1991 edition has become an industry-standard and now the second edition adds to and updates this superb reference work. This book's fourteen chapters discuss the auditory and technical processes by which the "stereo illusion" is perceived, recorded, and reproduced, and trace the development of stereo from the 1881 experiments of Clement Ader through the latest concepts in multi-channel and surround-sound. In his AES Journal review, John Eargle commented: "Psychoacoustical subjects are discussed throughout the book and add an important dimension that is not normally found in recording books... The book is a pleasure to read, primarily because it relies on graphical explanations rather than mathematical ones."
Numerous diagrams and photographs are employed to complement the conversational writing style. A valuable reference book, it also includes a comprehensive glossary, extensive references to other literature, and the complete text of Alan Blumlein's benchmark 1931 patent on stereo techniques in the Appendix - a feature which Len Feldman added was "worth the price of the book alone."
For more reviews, see the New Stereo Soundbook website.
A complete table of contents is also available.
