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High Performance Audio Power Amplifiers

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This book is a good introduction to the world of audio power amplifiers. Unfortunately, you could not design and build an amplifier with the information contained within. It covers a lot of ground, and gives reasons why certain techniques in design are good or bad. A little more low level detail and it would be perfect.

If you are looking at buying this book because someday you would like to build you own Audio Amplifier, forget it! There is really no information in this book that is useful in terms of that.
Its very NON-TECHNICAL and personally I feel why would anybody write such a book ? What information is attempted at being given to the reader ? Utterly Useless! This one didnt even survive two hours.

The book provides a very good introduction to the world of Audio Amplifiers. Quite wordy.

It fails to give a good technical/mathematical explanation of why and how. Nor does it give the grounds/basis from which to design a circuit. For example, what are the right values for a Zobel Network stabilisation circuit on the output of an amp? Rule of thumbs seem to be the go here, often they are not good enough.

If you want to understand, what bias current is best in the input stage's differential long-tail pair, or how to caluclate and make the best choice emitter resistor value for the output stage devices, then this book ain't for you.

I have bought many books on amplifiers..and agree with many other reviews here...this book is not worth the paper it is printed on! The cordell or self (power amp) books are much better.

This is a really good book if you are serious about audio power amplifier construction. It contains a lot of background information that is essential when you want to learn this particular field of wizardry. It does not contain any diy projects but instead gives you some of the fundament that is needed to start creating your own designs. When you have read the book it still remains useful as a reference. I find myself coming back to it time after time, a great book.