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Small Signal Audio Design (3 ed)

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  • Publisher: ‎Focal Press; 3rd edition
  • Publication date: ‎April 22, 2020
  • Author: Douglas Self
  • Language: ‎English
  • File size: ‎27.9 MB
  • Format: ‎PDF
  • Pages: 784  pages
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Small Signal Audio Design 3rd Edition

Small Signal Audio Design is a convenient handbook providing an extensive repertoire of circuits that can be assembled to make almost any 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 op-amps
  • build active filters with very low noise and distortion
  • make incredibly accurate volume controls
  • make a huge variety of audio equalizers
  • 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 optimizing RIAA equalization, 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.

About the Author

Douglas Self studied engineering at Cambridge University and then psychoacoustics at Sussex University. He has spent many years working at the top level of design in both the professional audio and hi-fi industries and has taken out a number of patents in the field of audio technology. He currently acts as a consulting engineer in the field of audio design.

2 reviews for Small Signal Audio Design (3 ed)

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    J. Child

    This is a great book. I knew it would be because I own the 1st volume.

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    Alexander

    By far the best book about all audio-related circuits. No filler, no random self-praise—just pure information.

    Technical but not too technical so it is easy to digest even with basic knowledge of the subject

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Small Signal Audio Design (3 ed) PDF
Small Signal Audio Design (3 ed)

Original price was: $117.62.Current price is: $7.00.