[LAD] You guys don't make nearly enough sense as you should to me :")

[Bearcat M. Sandor]

  Fons just wrote "as far as i'm concerned, it would be cool to have 
some help creating a "hybrid" matrix like i described to bearcat, to 
avoid having to run separate ambdecs for tops and subs. the most 
important thing would be another gain coefficient to match the subs to 
the tops, similar to what you already have to tweak the two 
psychoacoustic bands."

gain coefficient....what?  I know that makes sense to the lot of you but 
not to me. I'd like to fix that.

I love sound and i'm genuinely interested in sound theory, audio 
recording, the effects of sound on the body and ambisonics.  My problem 
is that some of the things said on this list come across as Frontier 
Gibberish because though i have the background in it as a hobby i don't 
have the training or education (mine is in computer programming not 
audio).  Reading up on ambisonics lots of it is technical and i'd like 
to be able to understand it.

So i want to educate myself. Does anyone have any suggestions for books 
or what have you that i could pick up to give me a basic feel for how 
all this works, basic accoustic sound theory? Should i pick up a book on 
algebra 2 first? (i'm not a math-wiz. I finally passed Algebra 1 on the 
2nd try).  If i were to look at a college course for what books they 
use, what course titles would i be looking for?

I probably won't get to the knowledge level of Fons or Jorn by reading 
books an messing around with my equipment, but i'd sure like to try.

For what it's worth English is my first and last language when talking 
about reading material.

Thanks folks. I appreciate it.