Handbook of Sound Reinforcement
Language: English
Published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp, 2026
- Softcover
- New
Seller: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, United KingdomPBShop.store UK
AbeBooks seller since June 11, 1999
Condition: New
£ 23.51
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Seller Inventory # L2-9798193184775
- Title
- Handbook of Sound Reinforcement
- Author
- Vossler, Graham T
- Publisher
- Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- PAP
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798193184775
- Item weight
- 844 grams
DESIGN THE SYSTEM. UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICS. MAKE EVERY DECISION COUNT.
When the doors open, there is no second take. Live sound has to work in the real room, for the real audience, with the equipment, time, power, acoustics, and constraints you actually have.
A system can have excellent loudspeakers, powerful amplifiers, and a sophisticated console and still fall short because coverage, gain structure, timing, room behavior, RF coordination, power, or deployment decisions were never understood as one connected system. The challenge is not simply knowing what each piece of equipment does. It is understanding why it behaves the way it does, how every stage affects the next, and how to recognize problems before they become show-day failures.
HANDBOOK OF SOUND REINFORCEMENT bridges that gap with a practical, engineering-based approach to professional live audio. Beginning with wave physics and room acoustics, it follows the complete path from microphones and signal flow to loudspeakers, arrays, amplification, processing, measurement, monitoring, electrical infrastructure, rigging considerations, and complete system deployment.
WHAT THIS HANDBOOK HELPS YOU DO
-
Understand frequency, wavelength, phase, decibels, sound propagation, reflections, room modes, reverberation, and critical distance—and see how they affect real venues.
-
Evaluate loudspeaker drivers, horn loading, point-source systems, line arrays, coverage patterns, array interaction, subwoofers, and delay systems.
-
Build SPL budgets, map coverage, determine mounting height and aim angles, and recognize problematic underlap and excessive overlap.
-
Develop a practical understanding of amplifier power, impedance, headroom, gain structure, balanced signals, digital audio networking, latency, and redundancy.
-
Work through console routing, EQ, dynamics, microphone techniques, wireless systems, RF coordination, wedge monitors, and in-ear monitoring.
-
Understand system measurement and tuning through RTA, dual-channel FFT concepts, magnitude, phase, coherence, time alignment, spatial averaging, and verification.
-
Approach power distribution, grounding, hearing exposure, rigging, outdoor deployment, documentation, and troubleshooting with the safety awareness professional work requires.
MORE THAN THEORY
The handbook is designed to remain useful after you understand the fundamentals. Concepts are developed from first principles and supported by worked calculations with real units, practical field examples, common-mistake guidance, troubleshooting references, Field Checklists, and Quick Reference sections built for fast consultation.
Complete case studies show how the individual disciplines come together in actual system-design situations—from corporate events and concert halls to large touring festival deployments.
WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?
This handbook is especially suited to aspiring and working system engineers, FOH engineers, monitor engineers, live-sound technicians, AV professionals, audio students, venue technicians, house-of-worship audio teams, and serious learners who want to understand the engineering behind dependable live systems rather than simply memorize settings.
Whether you are learning why a system behaves the way it does, preparing a venue, troubleshooting a signal path, planning loudspeaker coverage, tuning a deployed system, or developing deeper professional knowledge, this handbook gives you a connected framework for thinking from source to loudspeaker—and from loudspeaker to every seat in the audience.
Get your copy of HANDBOOK OF SOUND REINFORCEMENT and start thinking beyond the controls—start thinking like a system engineer.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
PBShop.store UK
Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since June 11, 1999
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 10 to 20 business days | 10 to 20 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 5.87 | £ 5.89 |
Payment methods
Store description
**Please note our transit times are from the date of dispatch.** We first started out as “The Paperback Exchange,” a chain of physical bookstores where we would part exchange your beloved books for new stories to transport you to faraway places. However, as shopping started to evolve to online shops and marketplaces, we bid our stores goodbye to become “PBShop.” This transition has only allowed us to blossom as we now ship thousands of titles to book lovers across the globe. We pride ourselves in being a community of local book lovers which allows our passion and devotion to shine in everything we do. In 2020 we not only celebrated our 20th birthday but our 1st birthday as being completely employee owned after becoming an E.O.T in September 2019. We are proud to be different and embrace standing apart on a book mountain by working from a virtual inventory which allows us to provide thousands of books that may be difficult to get for your bookshelf or your studies. Working with a number of different suppliers allows us to explore other avenues such as puzzles, sheet music and even stationery so we really do have something for everyone. Life is about being versatile in all realms of existence. If this is your first purchase with us, or you are a returning customer, we would like to welcome you to the PBShop family, for there is no friend as loyal as a book. We are a company who put our customers at the centre of everything we do as we understand the importance of reading because once you learn to read, you will forever be free. There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours that we are yet to explore, which is why we will forever inspire curious minds.…
Specialty
Hardbacks, PaperbacksSeller's business information
Pbshop.co.uk
Unit 22 Horcott Industrial Estate, Horcott Road
Fairford, United Kingdom GL7 4BX
Terms of sale
Returns Policy
We ask all customers to contact us for authorisation should they wish to return their order. Orders returned without authorisation may not be credited.
If you wish to return, please contact us within 14 days of receiving your order to obtain authorisation.
Returns requested beyond this time will not be authorised.
Our team will provide full instructions on how to return your order and once received our returns department will process your refund.
Please note the cost to return any unwanted order to us is borne by the buyer.
Should your order arrive damaged, not as advertised or faulty, we must be advised of this within 14 days of delivery. Please contact us so we can find the best solution for you.
Our Customer Care Team can be contacted by emailing alborders@paperbackshop.co.uk, or by calling our UK Office on +441285 712 917. We are available 9:00am till 5:30pm GMT Monday to Friday.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to PBShop.store UK, Fairford, United Kingdom, +44 1285 712917, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.
Shipping terms
Orders are shipped from our UK warehouse. Delivery thereafter is between 4 and 14 business days. Please contact us if you have any queries about our services or products.