buying Loudspeaker Cookbook and Speaker Building 201, redundant?

[BDixon]

I was reading thru the posts and was planning on buying:

The Master Handbook of Acoustics
The Loudspeaker Design Cookbook
Speaker Building 201

What I'm not sure of is if Cookbook and 201 cover basically the same things and it might be better to use that money for another book(what one though?) or parts for a project.

Thanks,
Brad

[Paul H]

I've read both the 'cookbook' and '201', and bought '201'. Nothing wrong with the other book, but I found the 201 book had more depth and detail. The tradeoff, of course, is that it's not the quickest and easiest read on the planet, depending on how technical a background you may have.

Paul

[JonW]

I bought and read 201. Then I wanted more detail, so I got Cookbook. I'm half way through it now. I would say, yeah, basically they cover much of the same stuff. But Cookbook is much more detailed. Heck, it's twice as long. You could skip 201 if you'll definitely read Cookbook. But 201 seemed to me to be a bit "gentler" of an introduction to the topic. So in terms of gradually building up a knowledge base about speaker building, they are both good. It's not light reading, but it is interesting.