How To Design and Specify High Quality Loudspeakers

The main aim of this book is to bring together all that is actually required to design and specify modern loudspeakers.

So if you don’t want to study 100’s or 1000’s of papers this book is for you!

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This book demonstrates modern Free, Open Source and Low Cost Software being applied to the design processes behind High Quality Loudspeaker Driver Unit Design.

The process is shown from initial concept through, specifications and theoretical simulations onto detailed simulation and design of a loudspeaker driver.

Sufficient to give re-assurance that, a design is practical and will perform as expected.
Modern computing power, both software and hardware have progressed to the point that such analysis are now practical for an interested individual or small company.

Today we are fortunate that there is a range of simple tools, which are focussed on individual areas such as: -


2D & 3D CAD, Magnetics, Lumped Parameters Modelling, Mechanical FEA, BEM Modelling as well as Measurement Tools are all readily available and are used throughout the book; both separately and combined to aid the design and modelling of loudspeakers.


Loudspeakers often require a wider range of knowledge than many other fields. Historically people have had little choice but to assemble this knowledge piecemeal from many different sources. This is in spite of loudspeakers and sound being so prevalent in our societies.

To my knowledge there is not a generally accepted route towards qualification in loudspeaker and in particular loudspeaker transducer design! So where to turn?


One of the aim's of this book is therefore to bring together the essential knowledge in one place in an orgainised manner.


May you the reader have as much fun in this field as I have had.