Routledge Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home: Improving the Listening and Viewing Experience

Product Description Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home is a comprehensive guide that will help every reader set up a modern audio-video system in a small room such as a home theater or studio control room. Verdult covers everything the reader needs to know to optimize the reproduction of multichannel audio and high-resolution video. The book provides concrete advice on equipment setup, display calibration, loudspeaker positioning, room acoustics, and much more. Detailed, easy-to-grasp explanations of the underlying principles ensure the reader will make the right choices, find alternatives, and separate the rigid from the more flexible requirements to achieve the best possible results. About the Author Vincent Verdult is currently Senior Information Security Consultant at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, The Hague, the Netherlands. He was born in 1974 in the Netherlands. From 2001 to 2005, he was an assistant professor in systems and control engineering at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He has always had a keen interest in audio and video engineering. In his spare time, he has used his engineering knowledge to design and build his own subwoofers, create and install his own acoustical devices, and optimize his audio-video setup in six different rooms over the last 20 years.