Applicable Standards and Further Reading

Applicable Standards and Further Reading

Further Reading on Audio Engineering and Acoustics

• Ballou, Glenn. ed. Handbook for Sound Engineers. Focal Press. 
  
  
• Beranek, Leo J. Music, Acoustics and Architecture. Wiley. 
  
  
• Berg, Richard E. & Stork, David G. The Physics of Sound. Prentice Hall. 
  
  
• Borden, G. J. & Harris, K. S. Speech Science Primer: Physiology, Acoustics and Perception of Speech. Williams and Wilkins. 
  
  
• Davis, D., Patronis, E., & Brown, P. Sound System Engineering 4e. Taylor and Francis. 
  
  
• Jones, D.S. Acoustics and Electromagnetic Waves. Clarendon Press.
  
  
• Kleppe, J.A. Engineering Applications of Acoustics. Artech House. 
  
  
• McCarthy, Bob. Sound Systems: Design and Optimization: Modern Techniques and Tools for Sound System Design and Alignment. Focal Press. 
  
  
• Olson, Harry F. Modern Sound Reproduction. Van Nostrand Reinhold. 
  
  
• Rigden, John. Physics and the Sound of Music. Wiley. 
  
  
• Rossi, Mario. Acoustics and Electro-acoustics. Artech House. 
  
  
• Toole, Floyd. Sound Reproduction, Loudspeakers and Rooms. Focal Press. 

Applicable Standards for IR Measurements and Speech 

• ISO 3382, Acoustics — Measurement of room acoustic parameters, parts 1 and 2, provide a lot of  additional information and recommended practices in for measurement and analysis of reverberation time and other objective metrics commonly used for evaluating room acoustics.
  
  
  • Part 1: Performance Spaces, (ISO 3382-1) is geared more toward concert halls, opera houses and theaters, and contains a quite a bit of information on acoustical quantities other than reverberation times not found in… 
    
    
  • Part 2: Reverberation time in ordinary rooms (ISO 3382-2)  We note that there is quite a bit of overlap between the two. In fact, the rationale for making it a two part standard doesn’t seem immediately obvious to us, but if you didn’t want to buy both parts, part 196 
    
    
• IEC 60268-16 (If you are interested in making speech intelligibility measurements using STI or STIPA)