Self Douglas. Small Signal Audio Design

4th edition. — Focal Press, 2024. — 847 p. — ISBN: 978-1-032-36627-2.Small Signal Audio Design is a convenient handbook providing an extensive repertoire of circuits that can be assembled to make almost any type of audio system. This fully revised fourth edition offers wholly new content on internally balanced audio design, electret microphones, emitter-follower stability, microphony in capacitors, and much, much more. This book continues the engaging prose style familiar to readers as you learn why mercury-filled cables are not a good idea, the pitfalls of plating gold on copper, and what quotes from Star Trek have to do with PCB design. Including all the crucial theories, but with minimal mathematics, Small Signal Audio Design is the must-have companion for anyone studying, researching, or working in audio engineering and audio electronics.The basics.
Components.
Discrete transistor circuitry.
Opamps and their properties.
Opamps for low voltages.
Filters.
Preamp architecture.
Variable gain stages.
Moving-magnet inputs: levels and RIAA equalization.
Moving-coil head amplifiers.
Tape replay.
Guitar preamplifiers.
Volume controls.
Balance controls.
Tone controls and equalizers.
Mixer architecture.
Microphone preamplifiers.
Line inputs.
Line outputs.
Headphone amplifiers.
Signal switching.
Mixer sub-systems.
Level indication and metering.
Gain-control elements.
Power supplies.
I am interfacing with the digital domain.
Design and experimentation.