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4.0 out of 5 stars
Strong Beginning, October 7, 1999
This review is from: Beginner's Guide to Tube Audio Design (Paperback)
This is a good book for the beginner interested in push-pull tube amplifiers. My only beef would be the very short treatment Single Ended amps are given. For the beginner, the SE typology has the great advantage of simplicity. For me, that outweighs the problems of low power (built my own high efficiency speakers) and expensive transformers. But even after building a kit SET amp, this book helped a great deal with knowledge on how to modify it. And in the field of electronics, the more times you read material from a different perspective, the better. The only books I have read that are better for beginners are the old Rider series (Basic Electricity and Basic Electronics), which are, alas, long out of print.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Rozenblit Book informative but not authoritative, March 12, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Beginner's Guide to Tube Audio Design (Paperback)
This book is concise and contains much useful information but is not adequate in and of itself to understand how to effectively design tube audio gear.Bruce goes into some detail regarding feedback and stability but without previous experience the reader will be somewhat at a loss to get results.It also does not explain the whys and wherefores of "modern" tube audio practice as they differ from traditional goals and methodologies. I do recommend this book,but must caution the reader against expecting too much from it.The Germans (Reiner zur Linde) and Japanese (Asano,Shishido et al)ar far ahead of anything published in English to date and until the US press "catches up" or someone translates these works,I think the would-be tube designer would do well to concentrate on literature from the mainstream tube period.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A lot of opinion but some good information, November 9, 2004
This review is from: Beginner's Guide to Tube Audio Design (Paperback)
This short book covers construction of tube audio equipment for beginners. I like to build tube audio-it's definitely more homebrew friendly than solid state and often sounds better-but I think one should have a better electronics background before starting these projects than Rozenblit presupposes. I think absolute beginners should start with the bookwork first and then build simple projects such as regenerative receivers with FET's before moving to tubes and then line powered audio gear.
This is a reasonably good but not really comprehensive book, best picked up after you can solder, use test equipment-you cannot build or troubleshoot without a generator and some kind of oscilloscope as well as an AC voltmeter accurate to .1 dB from 20 Hz to at least 30 or 40 kHz, and people who tell you otherwise are misguided or lying-and follow schematics pretty well.
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