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Acoustical
engineering
'Harry F Olson's Acoustical
Engineering is a daunting 718pp doorstep of a book,
described as offering, 'From fundamentals to practical applications,
complete working methods covering the entire field of acoustical
engineering for radio, television, sound motion picture and
recording engineers, architects, and musicians'. Alas, Olson
(associated with RCA for nearly 40 years)
died in 1982, and his opus is a work which enjoyed it's last
revision in 1957. Looking at the index for headings such as
'digital' or 'stereo' or the like yields nothing, so what
we have here is a work primarily of historical interest, even
though it remains a 'bible' among electronics primers. As
such, it contains all of the basics up to a specific point
in the history of electronics, so it is once again a 'must
own' for 1990s designers who have returned to valves and horns
and other retro-flavoured technologies.'
KK/HFN
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