 | The Complete Guide to High-End Audio by Robert Harley
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $9.63 The only comprehensive, general purpose guide to high-end audio currently in print.
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 | Introductory Guide to High-Performance Audio Systems: Stereo - Surround Sound - Home Theater by Robert Harley
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $10.91 abbreviated version of the previous book
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 | Get Better Sound by Jim Smith
Buy used from: $98.31 buy here: www.getbettersound.com. Very good book. Tells you how to arrange your speakers.
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 | The UHF Guide to Ultra High Fidelity
Buy used from: $5.00 buy here: www.uhfmag.com/Books.html. you would do well to subscribe to the magazine, too.
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| The World Of High Fidelity by Gerard Rejskind
Buy used from: $87.38 the better of the two advice books from UHF magazine. buy here: www.uhfmag.com/Books.html
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| The Science of Hi-Fidelity by Kenneth W. Johnson
Buy used from: $12.59 I've linked to the 2nd edition because it had a couple of reviews. Third edition is expanded and covers basics of digital. This is a first year college level textbook.
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 | Audio Reality by Bruce Rozenblit
Buy used from: $120.85 |
 | Audio Electronics, Second Edition by John Linsley Hood
Buy new: $64.56 / Used from: $32.28 |
 | The Sound Reinforcement Handbook
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $15.00 |
 | Firsts in High Fidelity by Stephen Spicer
Buy used from: $24.95 History of LEAK.
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| Good Sound: An Uncomplicated Guide to Choosing and Using Audio Equipment by Laura Dearborn
Buy used from: $0.54 beware: some people don't like this one. OK, it's a fountain of misinformation. but, it's an option.
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 | Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms by Floyd Toole
Buy new: $44.95 / Used from: $49.74 written by one of the greatest loudspeaker/small room acoustics researchers ever.
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 | Loudspeaker and Headphone Handbook, Third Edition
Buy new: $160.00 / Used from: $155.08 |
 | Principles of Digital Audio by Ken Pohlmann
Buy new: $40.46 / Used from: $34.99 |
 | Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals Book/CD by F. Alton Everest
Buy new: $26.05 / Used from: $25.80 |
 | Master Handbook of Acoustics by F. Alton Everest
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $15.58 |
| Loudspeaker: The Why and How of Good Reproduction by Gilbert Arthur Briggs
Buy used from: $45.90 old but not outdated
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| Amplifiers, the why and how of good amplification by G. A Briggs
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| High Fidelity: The Why and How for Amateurs by GA (Assisted By RE Cooke) Briggs
Buy used from: $58.57 old but not outdated
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 | High Performance Loudspeakers by Martin Colloms
Buy new: $130.00 / Used from: $62.34 |
 | Sound System Engineering, Third Edition by Don Davis
Buy new: $74.36 / Used from: $66.53 good for getting down the basics
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 | Audio and Hi-Fi Handbook
Buy new: $68.35 / Used from: $44.00 |
| Official Guide to Hi- Fidelity by Institute Of High- Fidelity
Buy used from: $34.50 |
 | Complete Guide to Audio by John Adams
Buy new: $53.95 / Used from: $0.75 |
 | The Art of Sound Reproduction by John Watkinson
Buy new: $105.00 / Used from: $49.99 |
 | Valve and Transistor Audio Amplifiers by John Linsley Hood
Buy new: $57.56 / Used from: $82.58 a collection of odds 'n' ends. not cohesive enough.
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| High fidelity simplified (Rider publication) by Harold D Weiler
Buy used from: $34.98 older and a little outdated.
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 | Science of Sound, The (3rd Edition) by Thomas D. Rossing
Buy new: $95.84 / Used from: $65.98 college text
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 | Physics of Sound, The (3rd Edition) by Richard E Berg
Buy new: $97.49 / Used from: $43.35 college text
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 | The Acoustical Foundations of Music by John Backus
Buy new: $42.47 / Used from: $14.29 college text
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| Quad: The Closest Approach by Ken Kessler
Buy used from: $249.94 also check out McIntosh: '...for the love of music...', by Ken Kessler. Published by McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., 2006. ISBN 0-9787236-0-0. A 315 page history of one of "the longest-established high-end audio-electronics company in America."
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 | Sound Bites: 50 Years of Hi-Fi News by Ken Kessler
Buy new: $25.10 / Used from: $16.97 |
| The True Sound of Music: A Practical Guide to Sound Equipment for the Home by Hans Fantel
Buy used from: $0.01 1973 book
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| State of the Art by Gerard Rejskind
Buy used from: $5.00 buy here: www.uhfmag.com/Books.html
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| Amplifiers (Technique of sound reproduction series) by H.Lewis York
Buy used from: $29.94 |
 | Amplifying Devices and Low-pass Amplifier Design by E.M. Cherry
Buy used from: $165.00 only for the most hardcore of builders and circuit designers. over 1000 pages
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| The Williamson Amplifier by D. T. N. Williamson
Buy used from: $22.99 |
| The Vacuum Tube Logic Book by David Manley
Buy used from: $49.55 |
| Audio Glossary by J. Gordon Holt
Buy used from: $4.45 |
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