Audio Power Amplifier Design Handbook

Douglas Self

460 pages, parution le 01/06/2009 (5^eme édition)

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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.

L'auteur - Douglas Self

Douglas Self : Senior designer of high-end audio amplifiers and contributor to Electronics World magazine

Sommaire

Introduction and general survey
History, architecture and negative feedback
The general principles of power amplifiers
The small signal stages
The output stage I
The output stage II
Compensation, slew-rate, and stability
Power supplies and PSRR
Class-A power amplifiers
Class-G power amplifiers
Class-D amplifiers
FET output stages
Thermal compensation and thermal dynamics
The design of DC servos
Amplifier and loudspeaker protection
Grounding and practical matters
Testing and safety

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Elsevier
Auteur(s)	Douglas Self
Parution	01/06/2009
Édition	5^eme édition
Nb. de pages	460
Format	23 x 19
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1257g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780240521626
ISBN13	978-0-2405-2162-6