Small Signal Audio Design is a highly practical handbook providing an
extensive repertoire of circuits that can be assembled to make almost
any type of audio system. The publication of Electronics for Vinyl has
freed up space for new material, (though this book still contains a
lot on moving-magnet and moving-coil electronics) and this fully
revised third edition offers wholly new chapters on tape machines,
guitar electronics, and variable-gain amplifiers, plus much more. A
major theme is the use of inexpensive and readily available parts to
obtain state-of-the-art performance for noise, distortion, crosstalk,
frequency response accuracy and other parameters. Virtually every page
reveals nuggets of specialized knowledge not found anywhere else. For
example, you can improve the offness of a fader simply by adding a
resistor in the right place- if you know the right place. Essential
points of theory that bear on practical audio performance are lucidly
and thoroughly explained, with the mathematics kept to an absolute
minimum. Self’s background in design for manufacture ensures he
keeps a wary eye on the cost of things. This book features the
engaging prose style familiar to readers of his other books. You will
learn why mercury-filled cables are not a good idea, the pitfalls of
plating gold on copper, and what quotes from Star Trek have to do with
PCB design. Learn how to: make amplifiers with apparently impossibly
low noise design discrete circuitry that can handle enormous signals
with vanishingly low distortion use humble low-gain transistors to
make an amplifier with an input impedance of more than 50 megohms
transform the performance of low-cost-opamps build active filters with
very low noise and distortion make incredibly accurate volume controls
make a huge variety of audio equalisers make magnetic cartridge
preamplifiers that have noise so low it is limited by basic physics,
by using load synthesis sum, switch, clip, compress, and route audio
signals be confident that phase perception is not an issue This
expanded and updated third edition contains extensive new material on
optimising RIAA equalisation, electronics for ribbon microphones,
summation of noise sources, defining system frequency response,
loudness controls, and much more. Including all the crucial theory,
but with minimal mathematics, Small Signal Audio Design is the
must-have companion for anyone studying, researching, or working in
audio engineering and audio electronics.
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ISBN
9781000050448
Publisert
2020
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Vendor
Focal Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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