Auto Audio/Choosing, Installing & Maintaining Car Stereo Systems: Selection Assembly Installation Maintenance Repair [Paperback]

Andrew R. Yoder (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0070765367 | ISBN-13: 978-0070765368 | Publication Date: February 1995

This text aims to provide car enthusiasts and audio and electronics buffs with the information they need to evaluate, install, troubleshoot and repair all types of automotive audio systems. It covers speakers, antennas, CD players, DAT tapes, cassette decks, radio and shortwave radio.

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About the Author

Andrew Yoder is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen popular books on the subjects of video, audio, and radio, including Home Video: Choosing, Installing, Maintaining, and Repairing Home Video Systems; Home Audio: Choosing, Installing, Maintaining, and Repairing Home Audio Systems; The Complete Shortwave Listener's Handbook (Fifth Edition); The TAB Electronics Yellow Pages; and Pirate Radio Operations. He has written for such publications as Radio!, Popular Electronics, CB Radio, and Popular Communications. Yoder earned a B.A. in Broadcasting and Writing at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (February 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070765367
• ISBN-13: 978-0070765368
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,529,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No stars for auto audio, August 22, 2003

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Chris (Malta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Auto Audio (Paperback)

I would rate this book at 0 stars if I could, but 1 star is the minimum. Just think about the fact that this book has an infinite number of pages which narrate the history of car audio, the first amplifiers and how they worked, the first transistors,bla bla bla. - All of this without explaining some usefull information such as wire connections, amp channel manipulation, etc. I bought this book but I was very disappointed. I read a lot of books about auto audio, and I must say that this book is not usefull at all, especially to beginners. Dont repeat my mistake by buying this book.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Book for a beginner- intermediate, March 14, 2000

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Alfred Ramirez (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Auto Audio/Choosing, Installing & Maintaining Car Stereo Systems: Selection Assembly Installation Maintenance Repair (Paperback)

Good book but still there are some questions that may remain unanswered. The book does not explain that good the various ways of conecting speakers to amps meaning the total watts that may come out of a channel, that sort of thing.More diagrams of actual conections would make an even nicer book. On the other side for a beginner is a very good book, for someone who just really started on this hobby. And still it gives a good tecnical explanation of crossovers, but as the title of the book mentioned is a book for beginners.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy and Informative, December 21, 2001

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Joe J. Kern (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Auto Audio (Paperback)

This book is so easy to read and understand. Unless you have experience, this is probably the only book available that will explain audio and car audio concepts in a language you can understand. I've read other books, and so many were frustrating because they say "Assumes some knowledge of car audio" in the intorduction. This really means "I'm not going to bother defining half of my terms so that you will be left very confused and frustrated trying to make sense of what I'm talking about." Not so with Auto Audio. I understood everything he said, and it was very useful.