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. This fully revised fourth edition offers wholly new content on internally balanced audio design, electret microphones, emitter-follower stability, and much, much more.
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. This fully revised fourth edition offers wholly new content on internally balanced audio design, electret microphones, emitter-follower stability, and much, much more.
Douglas Self studied engineering at Cambridge University then psychoacoustics at Sussex University. He has spent many years working at the top level of design in both the professional audio and hifi industries and has taken out a number of patents in the field of audio technology. He currently acts as a consultant engineer in the field of audio design.
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1. The basics 2. Components 3. Discrete transistor circuitry 4. Opamps and their properties 5. Opamps for low voltages 6. Filters 7. Preamp architecture 8. Variable gain stages 9. Moving-magnet inputs: levels and RIAA equalisation 10. Moving-coil head amplifiers 11. Tape replay 12. Guitar preamplifiers 13. Volume controls 14. Balance controls 15. Tone controls and equalisers 16. Mixer architecture 17. Microphone preamplifiers 18. Line inputs 19. Line outputs 20. Headphone amplifiers 21. Signal switching 22. Mixer sub-systems 23. Level indication and metering 24. Gain-control elements 25. Power supplies 26. Interfacing with the digital domain 27. Design and experimentation
