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Electromechanical analogies, impedance method, passive acoustic filters, analogies with electronic circuits.
Mechanical-acoustic systems, electromechanical transducers.
Condenser, piezoelectric, mobile coil and tape microphones: sensitivity, response and directivity.
Loudspeakers: types, air suspension, bass-reflex, acoustic labyrinth, directivity factor of the sources.
Decibel audio signal level, Level weighing, Peak level and crest factor
Headroom, Passive Filters
Cables and connections, Balancing of the signal, Adaptation of impedances
The analog audio chain, Mixing console
Sound diffusion systems. Active noise control: operating principle, interference between acoustic waves, applications. Main control systems.
Theory of analog and digital control.

S. Santoboni, Elettroacustica, Masson, Milano, 1996.
A. Uncini, "Audio Digitale", Ed. McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 88 386 6317-3, 2006.