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Book Description

Self on Audio: The collected audio design articles of Douglas Self, Third Edition is the most comprehensive collection of significant articles in the technical audio press. This third edition features 45 articles that first appeared in Elektor, Linear Audio, and Electronics World.

Including expanded prefaces for each article, the author provides background information and circuit commentary. The articles cover both discrete and opamp preamplifier design, mixing console design, and power amplifier design. The preamplifier designs are illuminated by the very latest research on low noise and RIAA equalization. The famous series of 1993 articles on power amplifier distortion is included, with an extensive commentary reflecting the latest research on compensation and ultra-low distortion techniques. This book addresses the widened scope of technology that has become available to the audio designer over the last 35 years.

 

New materials include:

  • Prefaces that explain the historical background of the articles, why they were written, and the best use of the technology of the day
  • Extensive details, including schematics, of designs that preceded or followed the design in each article, giving an enormous amount of extra information and a comprehensive overview of how author's design approaches have evolved
  • New directions for the technology, describing new lines of thought such as curvilinear Class-A

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. PREAMPLIFIERS AND RELATED MATTERS
    1. Chapter 1 Advanced preamplifier design (Wireless World, November 1976)
    2. Chapter 2 High-performance preamplifier (Wireless World, February 1979)
    3. Chapter 3 Precision preamplifier (Wireless World, October 1983)
    4. Chapter 4 Design of moving-coil head amplifiers (Wireless World, December 1987)
    5. Chapter 5 Precision preamplifier ’96, Part I (Electronics World, July/August 1996)
    6. Chapter 6 Precision preamplifier ’96, Part II (Electronics World, September 1996)
    7. Chapter 7 Overload matters (phono headroom) (Electronics World, February 1997)
    8. Chapter 8 A balanced view, Part I (Electronics World, April 1997)
    9. Chapter 9 A balanced view, Part II (Electronics World, May 1997)
    10. Chapter 10 High-quality compressor/limiter (Wireless World, December 1975)
    11. Chapter 11 Inside mixers (Electronics World, April 1991)
    12. Chapter 12 Electronic analogue switching, Part I: CMOS gates (Electronics World, January 2004)
    13. Chapter 13 Electronic analogue switching, Part II: discrete FETs (Electronics World, February 2004)
    14. Chapter 14 Preamplifier 2012: Part 1: introduction and line-in/tone/volume board (Elektor, April, 2012)
    15. Chapter 15 Preamplifier 2012: Part 2: moving-coil/moving-magnet (MC/MM) board (Elektor, May 2012)
    16. Chapter 16 Preamplifier 2012: Part 3: level indicator, source selector, power supply (Elektor, June 2012)
    17. Chapter 17 Self-improvement for capacitors: the linearisation of polyester capacitors (Linear Audio, Volume 1, April 2011)
    18. Chapter 18 A low-noise preamplifier with variable-frequency tone controls (Linear Audio, Volume 5, April 2013)
    19. Chapter 19 Optimising RIAA realisation (Linear Audio, Volume 7, Mar 2014)
  7. POWER AMPLIFIERS
    1. Chapter 20 Sound mosfet design (Electronics World, September 1990)
    2. Chapter 21 FETs versus BJTs: the linearity competition (Electronics World, May 1995)
    3. Chapter 22 Distortion in power amplifiers, Part I: the sources of distortion (Electronics World, August 1993)
    4. Chapter 23 Distortion in power amplifiers, Part II: the input stage (Electronics World, September 1993)
    5. Chapter 24 Distortion in power amplifiers, Part III: the voltage-amplifier stage (Electronics World, November 1993)
    6. Chapter 25 Distortion in power amplifiers, Part IV: the power amplifier stages (Electronics World, November 1993)
    7. Chapter 26 Distortion in power amplifiers, Part V: output stages (Electronics World, December 1993)
    8. Chapter 27 Distortion in power amplifiers, Part VI: the remaining distortions (Electronics World, January 1994)
    9. Chapter 28 Distortion in power amplifiers, Part VII: frequency compensation and real designs (Electronics World, February 1994)
    10. Chapter 29 Distortion in power amplifiers, Part VIII: class A amplifiers (Electronics World, March 1994)
    11. Chapter 30 Power amplifier input currents and their troubles (Electronics World, May 2003)
    12. Chapter 31 Diagnosing distortions (Electronics World, January 1998)
    13. Chapter 32 Trimodal audio power, Part I (Electronics World, June 1995)
    14. Chapter 33 Trimodal audio power, Part II (Electronics World, July 1995)
    15. Chapter 34 Load-Invariant audio power (Electronics World, January 1997)
    16. Chapter 35 Common-emitter power amplifiers: a different perception? (Electronics World, July 1994)
    17. Chapter 36 Few compliments for non-complements (Electronics World, September 1995)
    18. Chapter 37 Loudspeaker undercurrents (Electronics World, February 1998)
    19. Chapter 38 Class distinction (Electronics World, March 1999)
    20. Chapter 39 Muting relays (Electronics World, July 1999)
    21. Chapter 40 Cool audio power (Electronics World, August 1999)
    22. Chapter 41 Audio power analysis (Electronics World, December 1999)
    23. Chapter 42 Crossover displacement: a new kind of amplifier (Electronics World, November 2006)
    24. Chapter 43 The 5532 OpAmplifier: Part 1: design philosophy and schematics (Elektor, October 2010)
    25. Chapter 44 The 5532 OpAmplifier: Part 2: construction, bridged operation and test results (Elektor, November 2010)
    26. Chapter 45 Inclusive compensation & ultra-low distortion power amplifiers (Linear Audio, Volume 0, Sept 2010
  8. Index
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