This book is the essential reference for audio power amplifier designers and engineers. Author Douglas Self covers all the issues of distortion and linearity, power supplies, protection, reliability and layout. He also tackles unusual forms of compensation and unexpected sources of distortion such as capacitors and fuses. This much expanded and updated Fifth Edition includes four NEW chapters, one of them dedicated to the XD crossover-displacement principle, invented by the author, and used by Cambridge Audio. The book has a wealth of new material on four-stage amplifier architectures, current-mirrors, power transistors with internal sensing diodes, amplifier bridging, subtle distortion mechanisms, input stage common-mode distortion, double input stages, amplifier stability, output stages with gain, transformers and hum fields, inrush current suppression, DC servo design, thermal protection, the subtleties of cooling fan control, advanced line input stages, ultra-low-noise design, high and low-pass filtering, testing and safety, infra-red control, signal activation, 12V trigger, level indication and much more. There is significantly expanded material on professional power amplifiers as used in sound reinforcement and PA applications. This book is a must-have for audio power amplifier professionals and audiophiles, amateur constructors and anyone with intellectual curiosity about the struggle towards technical excellence.
*Provides everything you want to know in one volume, offering an essential guide to design principals and practice *Includes numerous graphs and an easy to read layout to illustrate points and aid complete understanding. *Includes the author's own amplifier designs for readers to build upon and adapt
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Love him or hate him, Self at least avoids these sort of traps and, refreshingly, confines himself to demonstrable facts. Some of his comments will inevitably be ill-received by the subjective audio community, but his challenge is simple enough: if your approach sounds better, prove it. For example, he recommends we use blind listening tests under properly controlled conditions. Hopefully someone will rise to the challenge and perhaps subjective reviews will gain a better standing.
Some of my design philosophies differ from Self's, and there is certainly no shortage of other opinions out there! But whether or not you end up agreeing 100% with Mr. Self doesn't really matter. Either way, the book remains an excellent tutorial in the nitty gritty of power amplifier design. In particular I found the breakdown of the amplifier into its key stages,and the discussion of how these stages interact, most illuminating.
Study of this book will help amplifier designers of all persuasions in understanding and optimising their work, and I throughly recommend it.
He doesn't hide his disdain for MOSFETS, single-ended amplifiers and other "subjectivist" high-end concerns. Contrary to the findings of many others in this field, Self finds Total Harmonic Distortion the only measurement of amplifier quality that matters. He isn't convincing to this reviewer.
A "must have" book for anyone designing audio power amplifiers.
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