Useful References

Organizations

ALMA - The International Loudspeaker Association
Source of information, and networking opportunities for the global loudspeaker industry. Organizes symposia in the US, China and Europe. Active int he development of loudspeaker test standards.

AES - the Audio Engineering Society
Develops test & Measurement standards for a range of audio products and holds annual meetings and exhibition in the US and Europe.

TIA - Telecommunications Industry Association
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is the leading trade association representing the global information and communications technology (ICT) industries through standards development, government affairs, business opportunities, market intelligence, certification and world-wide environmental regulatory compliance

IEEE
A non-profit organization, IEEE is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology. The IEEE name was originally an acronym for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Today, the organization's scope of interest has expanded into so many related fields, that it is simply referred to by the letters I-E-E-E (pronounced Eye-triple-E).

Publications

VoiceCoil
Magazine for the Loudspeaker Insdustry.

Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook
Industry guide to loudspeaker products

Engineering Resources

DSPRelated.com
DSPRelated.com has been around since 1999 and has become over the years the most popular independent internet resource for DSP engineers around the world.

Wolfram MathWorld
Claims to be the Web's most extensive math resource.

Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram|Alpha's aims to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone by collecting and curating objective data and implementing known models, methods, and algorithms to compute whatever can be computed about anything.

MIT Open Courseware
Free online courses from MIT Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Books

Basic Electroacoustics

People new to the industry or to using SoundCheck often ask us to point them in the direction of some good reference sources on acoustics, so we have compiled the following list. Please note that although some are out of print, they remain on the list as many companies probably own them, and often they are available used.