Small Signal Audio Design is a unique guide to the design of high-quality circuitry for preamplifiers mixing consoles & a host of other signal-processing devices. Learn to use inexpensive & readily available parts to obtain state-of-the-art performance in all the vital parameters of noise distortion crosstalk & so on. Focusing mainly on preamplifiers & mixers this practical handbook gives you an extensive repertoire of circuits that can be put together to make almost any type of audio system. A resource packed full of valuable information with virtually every page revealing nuggets of specialized knowledge never before published. Essential points of theory that bear on practical performance are lucidly & thoroughly explained with the mathematics kept to an essential minimum. Douglas background in design for manufacture ensures he keeps a wary eye on the cost of things.
Includes:: a chapter on power-supplies full of practical ways to keep both the ripple & the cost down showing how to power everything. Douglas wears his learning lightly & this book features the engaging prose style familiar to readers of his other books The Audio Power Amplifier Design Handbook & Self on Audio. You will learn why mercury cables are not a good idea the pitfalls of plating gold on copper & what"es from Star Trek have to do with PCB design. * Provides an enormous amount of knowledge in one unique volume making it an essential guide to design principles & practice in the wide are of small-signal audio *
Includes: numerous circuit blocks with all component values given so you can build on them & easily adapt them to your own requirements * Lavishly illustrated with diagrams & graphs & full of practical measurements on real circuitry so you can be sure just how well it will perform 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 how to make filters with very low noise & 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 sum switch clip compress & route audio signals