The New Stereo
Soundbook
Third Edition (Released August 2006)
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."