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High Quality Horn Loudspeaker Systems

The book "High Quality Horn LoudspeaHorn Book Jacket V3 front w releasedateker Systems" by Bjørn Kolbrek and Thomas Dunker was released in November 2019. This website will keep you up to date with availibility and distributors, and we also provide extra material and errata. The book is now in its second print run, and most of the errors from the first print run have been corrected. 

Currently the book is available from Lean Business Audio and Parts Express.

Where can I buy the book?

It is available from Lean business Audio and Amazon UK.

How much does it cost?

We have set the price to USD150. We believe this is a fair price for a 1070-page hardcover book of this scope.

To put it in perspective: A membership in the Audio Engineering Society costs $125. This gives you access to all the JAES articles and conference preprints. However, you have to find sort through all that information yourself, and many articles contain only a little unique piece of information. Additionally, there are literally hundreds of important articles in journals like JASA, JSV, Acustica etc. These articles cost from $5 to $30 apiece if you purchase them online. In addition comes the many books on loudspeakers and acoustics. 

To sum up, the book gives you essentially an organized library of horn loudspeaker litterature, for a price much lower than what it would cost to assemble the information yourself. Not to mention that some of the information cannot be found anywhere else!

What does it contain?

Have a look at the table of contents.

Can I get a signed copy?

Come to one of our signing events that will be announced on this site.

What is the format of the book?

The printed paper format is A4 (210x297mm, or 8.3x11.7") with two column text. We felt that many of the unique photos deserved this size paper format.

Will there be an eBook version?

No, the book will be available as a printed copy only. Trust us: having worked with the electronic version of the book for several years, that format doesn't work very well for a book of this size. (So if you ever come across a pdf version (or other electronic format) of this book it's a pirated copy, and we hope you have the decency to buy the original.) Inevitable compromises with the large number of illustrations imply that many readers will find a magnifying glass useful here and there.

Latest News

Fourth Print Run

The fourth print run has been delivered, and this time we managed to get it done before we ran out of stock, so hopefully nobody noticed. We now should have plenty stock for your Christmas shopping!

The books were actually delivered at the end of June, but due to a malware attack on this site we weren't able to publish it. We sincerely hope nobody were affected by the malware, our web host seems to have taken the site down fairly quickly. After a bit of work we managed to recreate everything, so the site should be safe now; the old install is completely gone. 

Third Print Run

The second print run recently sold out, but don't worry! A third print run is under way with delivery to the warehouse 16 May. For customers buying from Lean Business Audio the book should be available shortly after that, for Parts Express customers it will take a little longer as we need to ship stock over. 

Second Print Run has been Delivered

We have received the new batch of books from the printer, they are now currently in our warehouse, ready to be sent out to our distributors. Lean Business Audio is local and should be able to get books on short notice, so if they haven't updated their website, send them a message and let them know you want to buy a book. It will take a little longer to get stock to Parts Express as we need to ship overseas, but things are moving.

Latest Update on Second Print Run

The corrected manuscript has been submitted to the printer, and we have received a proof of some of the pages to make sure the images print well. As some of you may have noticed, some of the pictures in the first printing were very dark, and this should hopefully now have been corrected.

The printer informed us that due to Brexit and Covid, some print companies have been forced to downsize or close, so there's currently a shortage of print capacity in the UK. CPI Print, which we use, also have an unprecedented volume of work. The lead time for the book is therefore longer than anticipated. It looks like production will not start up until mid or late January, with additional lead times in order to get the books out to Lean and Parts Express. We are sorry we weren't able to get the books ready for Christmas, but at least it's moving forward!

We will keep you updated.

 

Stock Status and Second Print Run

The book is now nearly sold out. The last few copies are on their way to Parts Express now and should be available on their website soon.

Thanks to everyone who bought a copy! 

The stock ran out quicker than expected, but don't worry: we plan to do a new print run soon. We wanted to correct some typos first, but these will just be minor corrections of mistakes. The content will be the same as the firt printing, and all important (factual and mathematical) corrections will be listed in the Errata section on this website.