Notes

Noisy Wires?

A Problem or Two with Bi-wiring Claims

The truth about esoteric power cords

Erroneous THD arguments

A PAINFUL look at vibration induced signals in interconnects.

There is more coming. For now, I just wanted to get the initial page up and running.

Unusual Speaker designs

A snail of a speaker

This defies description

A sub made with servomotors!(PDF)

Theater with subwoofer horn that runs along the entire width of the stage

Club w/custom made concrete sub

Sewer Pipe Speakers?

Concrete speakers

Pipes!

"The Periscope"

Hedlund Horns

Concrete, lots and lots of concrete!

Sensory Overload

Some Visual Illusions

Auditory Illusions

Shepards Tones(requires JAVA)

Tri-Tone Effect(requires JAVA)

Demonstrations of Auditory Illusions and Tricks

Homepages

Eyespy's Home Theater and Audio Page

Art Ludwig's Sound Page

Recommended Forums

Madisound Audio Discussion
Speaker Builders Extrodinaire, have a drool towel handy!

Full-Range Driver Forum
Again, great speaker builders, but specializing in single driver designs.

DIY Audio Forum
Good Genreal Purpose audio forum. Covers many topics.

AudioReview Forums
Another multi-topic Audio Discussion forum.

Live-Audio Forum
This is special purpose forum aimed at those folks who do live audio, from churches to the largest of concerts. They also have forums on Installed sound, Recording and Lighting. If that isn't enough, they have a well stocked study hall.

Church Sound Network Discussion Forum
This place is focused on the unique requirements that churches have for sound and acoustics. Registration is required, but it is free and only for the purpose of keeping out apammers and those who would mine email addresses.

Non Recommended Forums

Audio Asylum. The moderators bring their biases into their position. If you disagree with their philosophy, you will be harrased, have your posts erased without warning or notice and be threatened with being banned - even if you haven't broken any forum rules(and by the moderators own admission). It's a waste of time.

Engineering/Technical

University of Miami Study on Phase Distortion Detection

Crown Audio Amplifier Application Guide. Has just about every imaginable wiring connection plus other good stuff on power amps.(1.6MEG PDF!)

American Wire Gauge chart and other useful discussions on electricity

Rane Note on System interconnections.

All of the Rane Notes Includes topics on Amplifier clipping, equalizer myths, Linkwitz-Riley crossovers, etc.

Pro Sound Web Studyhall

Belden Technical Papers

Ever wonder what the EIA Test Procedure is for your CD player?

Cables, Interconnects & Other Stuff - The Truth

Cable Nonsense (Long)

What's All This Teflon Stuff, Anyhow?

Understand capacitor soakage to optimize analog systems

The Potentially Audible Effect of Speaker Cable Resistance

The Potentially Audible Effect of Speaker Cable Inductance

The Effect of Speaker Cable Lengths

Discussion of Group Delay in Loudspeakers

Analog Techniques and Audio

Current Dependent Phase Shifts in Audio Cables?

Skin Effect and cable impedance

Psychological and Biological

A Review of The Cocktail Party Effect Barry Arons

New evidence shows false memories can be created

Blind Source Separation of recorded speech and music signals.

Different patterns of human discrimination learning for two interaural cues to sound-source location

"What" and "where" in the human auditory system

Where the imaginal appears real: A positron emission tomography study of auditory hallucinations

Auditory neuroscience: Development, transduction, and integration