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Amplifier Circuits (Newnes Circuit Series)

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This book is just a collection of amplifier circuits from magazine articles and manufacturer databooks. Each circuit is accompanied by a description, ranging from a sentence to a paragraph. There is no discussion of amplifier design or theory, although some of the circuit descriptions contain brief explanations of the topology. I was very disappointed, because I wanted to learn about amplifier design. If you are just looking for a circuit, this book might be of some value, especially since it lists the original sources for all of the circuits.

Very disappointed. This book as stated before is a collection of schematics with no insight into the design or trade offs of one circuit over another. Only good thing I can say good about this book is, it contains an example of different amplifier circuits in one place. Most amplifiers in this book use opamps. Do not buy this book if you are looking to learn about amplifier design. This is at best a picture book.

The great thing about this book is that it is an extensive library of working circuits with component values. This provides an excellent service as a reference design for a circuit designer, i.e. a starting point for someone who already has design chops. If you lack design chops, probably better to reference one of the thousands of books written from the perspective of explaining the basics of circuit theory. This book was never intended to be a primer on the basics of circuit theory but instead a collection of reference designs vastly useful to a design engineer.