Samuel Groner
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Anyone seen/read this book? Worth buying?
Samuel
Anyone seen/read this book? Worth buying?
Samuel
Audio Engineering: Know It All
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I saw it fairly recently (Foyles, London), but did not buy it.
It's a big book (almost 1000 pages) and the contributors are all established experts.
But... with some many subjects covered, there is no way it can go "in depth" on any one. There may be gold nuggets of wisdom in there but to me it seemed more like a "the best of" collection, taking bits from the other books by the authors already published by this publisher. A complete beginner can probably get a lot of value out of it but not an experienced guy like you Samuel.
Maybe I am being unfair, but this is my impression after 10 minutes of browsing through it.
There is one review (positive) at www.amazon.co.uk so far.
C.
It's a big book (almost 1000 pages) and the contributors are all established experts.
But... with some many subjects covered, there is no way it can go "in depth" on any one. There may be gold nuggets of wisdom in there but to me it seemed more like a "the best of" collection, taking bits from the other books by the authors already published by this publisher. A complete beginner can probably get a lot of value out of it but not an experienced guy like you Samuel.
Maybe I am being unfair, but this is my impression after 10 minutes of browsing through it.
There is one review (positive) at www.amazon.co.uk so far.
C.
wtmnmf
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Looks interesting, but this Amazon review has me worried:
A poor cut-and-paste job - avoid, October 19, 2008
By E.J. Pitt "EJP" (Melbourne, Australia)
Frankly this offering is a disgrace to the publisher. The chapters by John Linsley Hood and Douglas Self are all lifted, without acknowledgment, from their other books, and also apparently without even any competent proof-reading. Both author's contributions talk about 'elsewhere in this book', referring to topics that are covered in those other books, not this one. One chapter by Douglas Self starts with a discussion of 'this frequency' without the slightest hint as to what 'this frequency' actually is. A poor cut-and-paste job. The lack of proof-reading applies to the whole book: every time I open it I find another error in a formula, or a repeated sentence, or other things that just don't make sense.
A poor cut-and-paste job - avoid, October 19, 2008
By E.J. Pitt "EJP" (Melbourne, Australia)
Frankly this offering is a disgrace to the publisher. The chapters by John Linsley Hood and Douglas Self are all lifted, without acknowledgment, from their other books, and also apparently without even any competent proof-reading. Both author's contributions talk about 'elsewhere in this book', referring to topics that are covered in those other books, not this one. One chapter by Douglas Self starts with a discussion of 'this frequency' without the slightest hint as to what 'this frequency' actually is. A poor cut-and-paste job. The lack of proof-reading applies to the whole book: every time I open it I find another error in a formula, or a repeated sentence, or other things that just don't make sense.
Samuel Groner
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Thanks for the opinions--when browsing through the index I thought that maybe there wasn't too much new writing inside :'(. Anyway, a local library got a copy so I'll check it out this way.
Samuel
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