Books on psychoacoustics

[oivavoi]

I recently came across this book on psychoacoustics:
https://www.amazon.com/Psychoacoustics-Models-Springer-Information-Sciences/dp/3540231595

Just started reading it. Extremely interesting. It seems to be much less known that Floyd Toole's book though... anybody here read it? But it's rather scholarly and dry, that must be said.
(plus it's expensive. but there are ways, cough cough)

Are there other books on psychoacoustics you can recommend?

 

[Blumlein 88]

https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals...William-Yost/dp/9004236384/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Also dry and also expensive. These are college textbooks.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0125056281/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This second one is a little easier read. Both are very, very good, but the first one from Yost is a little bit more advanced. The second one is written by Brian CJ Moore. Many scholarly bits of research papers had him as an author.

 

[oivavoi]

https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals...William-Yost/dp/9004236384/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Also dry and also expensive. These are college textbooks.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0125056281/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Ditto for this one.

Thanks!

 

[Jakob1863]

I recently came across this book on psychoacoustics:
https://www.amazon.com/Psychoacoustics-Models-Springer-Information-Sciences/dp/3540231595

Just started reading it. Extremely interesting. It seems to be much less known that Floyd Toole's book though... anybody here read it? But it's rather scholarly and dry, that must be said.
(plus it's expensive. but there are ways, cough cough)

Are there other books on psychoacoustics you can recommend?

Toole´s book is better known as he concentrates on the things that matters for reproduction of music (at home). Fastl/Zwicker represents the traditional psychoacoustic approach in concentrating more on single parameters and certain mechanism of hearing while only lighty touching actual applications of these foundations.

There are other anthologies i could recommend, all covering the basics but from different perspectives and with different focus points. Obviously there will be much redundance wrt to the facts reported.

Stanley A.Gelfand; Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics
Christopher Plack; The Sense of Hearing

and of course the series
Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
http://www.springer.com/series/2506

 

[Speedskater]

I borrowed the Fastl & Zwicker book for the library a long time ago. Didn't get far, it's a 400 page book with lots of fine print. A very slow read.

The Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society has a ton of papers, Power Points and videos on the subject. Many good ones by J.J. Johnston.

http://www.aes-media.org/sections/pnw/ppt/

 

[amirm]

I recently came across this book on psychoacoustics:
https://www.amazon.com/Psychoacoustics-Models-Springer-Information-Sciences/dp/3540231595

Just started reading it. Extremely interesting. It seems to be much less known that Floyd Toole's book though... anybody here read it? But it's rather scholarly and dry, that must be said.
(plus it's expensive. but there are ways, cough cough)

It is actually the bible of psychoacoustics. Indeed anything Zwicker writes, i.e. papers, is held in high regard.

It is a challenging read though at times.

As to Dr. Toole, he ties psychoacoustics to sound reproduction. In that regard, it is much more useful book than this one.

 

[amirm]

This is another book I have:

https://www.amazon.com/Acoustics-Psychoacoustics-David-Howard/dp/0240521757

It is an easy read and has excellent coverage of fundamentals. Alas, the applied version of it to room acoustics is full of old school thinking that puts aside the very thing that the book is about. Dr. Toole's book is far superior in that regard. So get this to understand the basics (including fair amount of math) but not application.

 

[oivavoi]

Thanks guys! Very useful input