"Self On Audio"

Expanded Second Edition out now

ISBN 0-7506-8166-7

Updated: 18 Apr 2008
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Available from good bookshops and probably some bad ones too.

395 pages.
Published by Newnes, an imprint of Elsevier.
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This is a collection of the articles I have published in Electronics World/Wireless World over the last few years. It gives access to a huge amount of information that is otherwise no longer obtainable.

Available from any big bookshop, or via Butterworth: see link below.

Contents:

INTRO.                                       
Commentary on amplifier technology over last 25 years

PREAMPLIFIERS.                                    PUBLISHED:
 1 An Advanced Preamplifier MRP1                   Nov 1976
 2 High-Performance Preamp  MRP4                   Feb 1979  
 3 Precision Preamplifier  MRP10                   Oct 1983
 4 Moving-Coil Head Amp                            Dec 1987
 5 Preamp '96  Part 1                          Jul/Aug 1996 
 6 Preamp '96  Part 2                              Sep 1996 
 7 "Overload Matters" (RIAA overload)              Feb 1997 
 8 Balanced Line inputs and outputs, Part 1        Apr 1997 
 9 Balanced Line inputs and outputs, Part 2        May 1997 
10 High-Quality Compressor/Limiter                 Dec 1975
11 Inside Mixers                                   Apr 1991
12 Electronic Analogue Switching: Part 1           Jan 2004
13 Electronic Analogue Switching: Part 2           Feb 2004

POWER AMPLIFIERS.
14 Sound Mosfet Design                            Sept 1990
15 Power FETs versus BJTs                          May 1995   
16-23 Distortion In Power Amplifiers 1-8    Aug 93-Mar 1994 
24 Power Amplifier Input Currents                  May 2003
25 Distortion Residuals & Diagnosis                Jan 1998  
26 A Trimodal Amplifier Part 1                    June 1995 
27 A Trimodal Amplifier Part 2                    July 1995  
28 Load-invariant power amplifier                  Jan 1997  
29 Common-Emitter Amplifiers                      July 1994  
30 Two-stage Amplifiers                           Sept 1995  
31 Excess speaker currents.                        Feb 1998   
32 Class Distinction (amp classification)          Mar 1999 
33 Relay control.                                 July 1999 
34 Power Partition Diagrams 1                      Aug 1999 
35 Audio Power Analysis (Power Partition Diags 2)  Dec 1999 

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