The original
Audio Cyclopedia by H. M. Tremaine was published in 1959. It incorporated material from his earlier book
Attenuators, Equalizers and Filters (1956) as well as his series of articles titled "Practical Sound Engineering" that appeared in
Radio and Television News in 1951. Tremaine's next book,
Passive Audio Network Design, came out in 1964, and much of that material appeared in the second edition of the
Audio Cyclopedia, which was released in 1969.
Mr. Tremaine died in 1969, but the second edition of the
Cyclopedia was in print for about a decade afterwards. Sometime in the '80s, the publisher replaced it with
The Handbook For Sound Engineers, which regrettably also bore the subtitle of
The New Audio Cyclopedia (causing confusion to this day). But they're not the same book.
The latest edition of the
Handbook has dropped the
Cyclopedia moniker, and includes some excellent new material on transformers by Bill Whitlock, as well as continuing to feature Steve Dove's definitive chapter on console design, slightly updated. Even though whole chapters of the book (e.g., the section on equalizers) are lifted from Tremaine almost verbatim, old Howard is only mentioned in passing in the preface, and they spelled his name wrong