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Audio power amplifier design handbook / Douglas Self.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Self, Douglas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Audio amplifiers--Design and construction.
- Audio amplifiers.
- Power amplifiers--Design and construction.
- Power amplifiers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 718 p. ) ill.
- Edition:
- 6th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Focal Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- ch. 1. Amplifiers and the audio signal
- ch. 2. The basics of distortion
- ch. 3. Negative feedback
- ch. 4. Amplifier architecture, classes, and variations
- ch. 5. General principles and distortion mechanisms
- ch. 6. The input stage
- ch. 7. The voltage-amplifier stage
- ch. 8. The push-pull voltage-amplifier stage
- ch. 9. The output stage
- ch. 10. Output stage distortions
- ch. 11. More distortion mechanisms
- ch. 12. Closely observed amplifiers : design examples
- ch. 13. Compensation and stability
- ch. 14. Output networks and load effects
- ch. 15. Speed and slew-rate
- ch. 16. Power dissipation in amplifiers
- ch. 17. Class-A power amplifiers
- ch. 18. Class XD : crossover displacement
- ch. 19. Class-G power amplifiers
- ch. 20. Class-D power amplifier
- ch. 21. FET output stages
- ch. 22. Thermal compensation and thermal dynamics
- ch. 23. The design of DC servos
- ch. 24. Amplifier and loudspeaker protection
- ch. 25. Layout, grounding, and cooling
- ch. 26. Power supplies and PSRR
- ch. 27. Power amplifier input systems
- ch. 28. Input processing and auxiliary systems
- ch. 29. Testing and safety
- ch. 30. A brief history of solid-state power amplifiers.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781136123818
- 1136123814
- 9780240526140
- 0240526147
- 9781136123825
- 1136123822
- OCLC:
- 857076920
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