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Audio Power Amplifier Design Handbook

Name: Audio Power Amplifier Design Handbook
Author: Douglas Self
ISBN: 9780080953892

by Douglas Self

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Overview

This book is essential for audio power amplifier designers and engineers for one simple reason...it enables you as a professional to develop reliable, high-performance circuits. The Author Douglas Self covers the major issues of distortion and linearity, power supplies, overload, DC-protection and reactive loading. He also tackles unusual forms of compensation and distortion produced by capacitors and fuses.

This completely updated fifth edition includes four NEW chapters including one on The XD Principle, invented by the author, and used by Cambridge Audio. Crosstalk, power amplifier input systems, and microcontrollers in amplifiers are also now discussed in this fifth edition, making this book a must-have for audio power amplifier professionals and audiophiles.

Audience: Professional audio designers and electronic engineers; advanced amateur audiophiles and electronic designers; audio engineers involved in using and maintaining high-end domestic and professional audio systems.

About the Author, Douglas Self

Douglas Self has dedicated himself to demystifying amplifier design and establishing empirical design techniques based on electronic design principles and experimental data. His rigorous and thoroughly practical approach has established him as a leading authority on amplifier design, especially through the pages of Electronics World where he is a regular contributor.

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A detailed guide to the theory and practice of audio power amplifier design, from the elegantly simple mathematics of the differential pair to the practicalities of bolting down power transistors without breaking them. Based on a large body of research on distortion and twenty years of experience, the text provides an authoritative exposition of power amplifier design and operation. Suggests that much of the conventional wisdom in the field is wrong, and offers practical solutions to many design problems. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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A practical manual offering professionals and students instruction in the design of audio amplifiers. The author, a regular contributor to magazine who specializes in establishing empirical design techniques, expands the volume's coverage from the first (1996) edition to cover load-invariant power amps, distortion residuals, and other material. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)