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What do you want to learn? Want to build something or just learn? There is a wealth of information online. You will find a fair amount of the sites by reading at this Madisound Speaker Building forum for a short while. http://www.madisound.com/cgi-bin/discuss.cgi and asking a question or two there.
One thing to remember is that you might find books about speakers a little hard to follow w/o some basic knowledge about electricity first. In my opinion there is just no avoiding this. You will not get a lot of enjoyment out of Dickason without it. It is just the way it is. Most books about speakers take a certain familiarity with basic concepts (voltage, current, impedance, phase, back emf, magnetism, electrical resonance, Q, etc...) for granted and speakers just cant be understood without them.
A couple helpful sites re speakers with articles for starting out:
http://www.snippets.org/ldsg/intro.php3
http://www.trueaudio.com/
http://www.adireaudio.com/ (read the tech area)
http://www.partsexpress.com/webpage.cfm?&DID=7&WebPage_ID=29
(look at the resources section here)
Some online sources for basic electricity. Rays is a really good short (50 pages) on the basics and only takes a few hours to read:
Ray Dall, Electronics Theory.com:
http://www.electronicstheory.com/html/e101-1.htm
Tony R. Kuphaldt, Lessons in Electric Circuits (LEC):
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/electricCircuits
There are some good intro sections on capacitors and filters in this material
Graham Knotts Basic Electronics (Cambridge Regional College) Excellent!
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.knott/index1.htm
Basic Electronics (dont let car foolya) This is a car site but basic electricity section is very user friendly
http://www.eatel.net/~amptech/elecdisc/caraudio.htm
If you are really into it some basic books on electricity that are good for non-tech folk.
*Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville: Basic Electricity. This book really holds your hand through the basic concepts.
*Bureau of Navy Personnel, Basic Electricity. An introduction to electricity
*Army Technical Manuals (1951-52). These are very good if you are beginning. Often available on E-bay for bargain prices. TM11-681 has a very clearly written appendix on the use of trigonometry for ac/phase theory. TM11-661, Electrical Fundamentals (direct current); TM11-681 Electrical Fundamentals (alternating current)
Both books Sean notes are good.
Sincerely
I remain,
What do you want to learn? Want to build something or just learn? There is a wealth of information online. You will find a fair amount of the sites by reading at this Madisound Speaker Building forum for a short while. http://www.madisound.com/cgi-bin/discuss.cgi and asking a question or two there.
One thing to remember is that you might find books about speakers a little hard to follow w/o some basic knowledge about electricity first. In my opinion there is just no avoiding this. You will not get a lot of enjoyment out of Dickason without it. It is just the way it is. Most books about speakers take a certain familiarity with basic concepts (voltage, current, impedance, phase, back emf, magnetism, electrical resonance, Q, etc...) for granted and speakers just cant be understood without them.
A couple helpful sites re speakers with articles for starting out:
http://www.snippets.org/ldsg/intro.php3
http://www.trueaudio.com/
http://www.adireaudio.com/ (read the tech area)
http://www.partsexpress.com/webpage.cfm?&DID=7&WebPage_ID=29
(look at the resources section here)
Some online sources for basic electricity. Rays is a really good short (50 pages) on the basics and only takes a few hours to read:
Ray Dall, Electronics Theory.com:
http://www.electronicstheory.com/html/e101-1.htm
Tony R. Kuphaldt, Lessons in Electric Circuits (LEC):
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/electricCircuits
There are some good intro sections on capacitors and filters in this material
Graham Knotts Basic Electronics (Cambridge Regional College) Excellent!
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.knott/index1.htm
Basic Electronics (dont let car foolya) This is a car site but basic electricity section is very user friendly
http://www.eatel.net/~amptech/elecdisc/caraudio.htm
If you are really into it some basic books on electricity that are good for non-tech folk.
*Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville: Basic Electricity. This book really holds your hand through the basic concepts.
*Bureau of Navy Personnel, Basic Electricity. An introduction to electricity
*Army Technical Manuals (1951-52). These are very good if you are beginning. Often available on E-bay for bargain prices. TM11-681 has a very clearly written appendix on the use of trigonometry for ac/phase theory. TM11-661, Electrical Fundamentals (direct current); TM11-681 Electrical Fundamentals (alternating current)
Both books Sean notes are good.
Sincerely
I remain,