Master Handbook of Acoustics
by F. Alton Everest, Ken C. Pohlmann · first published 1981
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Practical Instruction on the Art and Science of Acoustic Design and ArchitectureBuild your own acoustic environments such as recording studios, control rooms, and home listening rooms with expert insights from two engineering professionals. Fully expanded to cover the latest methods and software tools, Master Handbook of Acoustics, Fifth Edition presents clear explanations of acoustic phenomena and provides a hands-on approach to room design. Learn how to perform acoustic measurements, choose room dimensions, assign speaker placement, analyze response curves, and design and install sound absor
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For a book that's lightly technical, there's F. Alton Everest's "Master Handbook of Acoustics" that discusses many aspects of acoustics, but does cover noise control and sound abatement. For more technical treatments, my go-to books are Leo Beranek's "Acoustics" (or Beranek's "Noise and Vibration…
on “Soundproofing for New York Noise” ↗In addition to what jzwinck recommended, I'd also recommend the Loudspeaker Design Cookbook [0] and the Master Handbook of Acoustics [1] If you're an engineer that's comfortable with differential calculus, I'd recommend the grandaddy of them all: Acoustics by Beranek [2] (I'm actually linking to Acoustics: Sound Fields and Transducers…
on “Homemade Speakers” ↗This reminds me of F. Alton Everest's notes in "The Master Handbook of Acoustics" that the threshold of hearing lies coincident with the SPL of Brownian motion of air particles on the ear drum... except this is with respect to light.
on “People can sense single photons” ↗Beyond hearing your own heartbeat after a while, an ultimate psycho-acoustic experiment: hearing air molecules hit your eardrums. Taken from Master Handbook of Acoustics 5th edition (page 39-40): The human ear cannot detect sounds softer than the motion of air particles on the eardrum. This is the threshold of hearing. There would be no reason to have ears more sensitive,…
on “The Quietest Place on Earth” ↗