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Design and build awesome audio amps. Amateur and professional audiophiles alike can now design and construct superior quality amplifiers at a fraction of comparable retail prices with step-by-step instruction from the High-Power audio Amplifier Construction Manual. Randy Slone, professional audio writer and electronics supply marketer, delivers the nuts-and-bolts know-how you need to optimize performance for any audio system--from home entertainment to musical instrument to sound stage. Build a few simple projects or delve into the physics of audio amplifier operation and design. This easy to understand guide walks you through: Building the optimum audio power supply; Audio amplifier power supplies and construction: Amplifier and loudspeaker protection methods; Stability, distortion, and performance; Audio amplifier cookbook designs; Construction techniques; Diagnostic equipment and testing procedures; Output stage configurations, classes, and device types; Crossover distortion physics; Mirror-image input stage topologies.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #117934 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 476 pages

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Randy Slone, professional audio writer and electronics supply marketer, delivers the nuts-and-bolts know-how you need to optimize performance for any audio system--from home entertainment to musical instrument to sound stage.

From the Back Cover
Serious About Sound? Build showcase amplifiers that outperform store-bought models-at a fraction of the cost. Ideal for audiophiles, electronics hobbyists, and audio engineers, here is the ultimate audio amplifier dream-to-reality book, giving you leading-edge electronics tools for designing every detail of a superior high-power amplifier. Using Randy Slone's ready-to-construct recipes, you can-in less time than you think-put together an amplifier that's a major step up from commercial offerings. And you'll save hundreds, even thougsands, of dollars doing it. The Best In Do-It-Yourself Audio Amplification. 12 complete designs, ready to guild; Theory and principles for designing your own world-class amplifier; Optimal audio power supply building methods; New configurations and analyses of voltage amplifiers; New methods for increasing stability; New distortion-reduction techniques; Latest info on computer analysis and diagnostics; Popular audio myths debunked. Serious About Sound? Build showcase amplifiers that outperform store-bought models-at a fraction of the cost. Ideal for audiophiles, electronics hobbyists, and audio engineers, here is the ultimate audio amplifier dream-to-reality book, giving you leading-edge electronics tools for designing every detail of a superior high-power amplifier. Using Randy Slone's ready-to-construct recipes, you can-in less time than you think-put together an amplifier that's a major step up from commercial offerings. And you'll save hundreds, even thousands, of dollars doing it. The Best In Do-It-Yourself Audio Amplification. 12 complete designs, ready to build; Theory and principles for designing your own world-class amplifier; Optimal audio power supply building methods; New configurations and analyses of voltage amplifiers; New methods for increasing stability; New distortion-reduction techniques; Latest info on computer analysis and diagnostics; Popular audio myths debunked.

About the Author
G. Randy Slone is an electrical engineer with nearly two decades of experience in data processing and industrial electronics. A private engineering consultant, his clients have included DuPont, Champion International, and Ralston Purina. Also a former college instructor, Slone spends much of his time working in his state-of-the-art home electronics laboratory.

Customer Reviews

Experienced Audio Engineer wrote this book
Great book. Goes into fine detail on all aspects of audio power amplifier design and construction.

High Power Audio amplifier construction MANUAL? Hmmm
This book, which rested on my bookshelf for 10 years because it consistently repelled me, turned out, after mustering courage to dig into it, to be a reasonable intro of the field to the budding armature but I can only rate the book as informative in the same way that a good quality audio magazine might be with a good selection of sample circuits and art work. With the qualification that the book is intended for the novice it is a good book although it does contain a number of useful nuggets of enlighenment even for the expert. However, my chronic aprehension to read the book was vindicated when the author engaged in belabouring hand-wavy explanations. I can only suppose the author honestly believes basic algebra is beyond most armatures. A book on audio really needs the underpinning of basic circuit theory maths, attempting to write a "manual" without it, like this one, can only disappoint a good majority of technically competent armatures.
I must gripe about the authors use of RMS power when refering to rated power (a time average)as there is NO such thing as RMS power - only average, peak or instantaneous power - the term RMS only applies to volts and amps or other 'linear' quantities. Power is strictly a mean square metric. Usage of RMS power IS unfortunately incorrectly engrained in the jargon but I feel this is no excuse to propagate its usage.

The Electronics Workbench hair-thin line screen dump drawings greatly `encheapen' the book. It seems as if the editors were involved in an ink saving scheme!

Notwithstanding the book is redeemed by including a good selection of designs ( I have no comments on their functionality) but thus relegates itself into the cookbook category. It would have been enlightening had the author included a chapter dealing with first generation SS power amp techniques such the famous Lin OPS and application designs by RCA featured in their 1970s hobby and power applications handbooks. This would have paved the way nicely for a better appreciation of the reasons behind modern power amp topologies which draw heavily on the humble OPAMP paradigm.

Great Book
I bought this book a few years ago and have built 3 of the designs with great success. the L-mosfets are available online at "the company store". As a matter of fact, they sell all of the transistors used in sloan designs. I bought 8 sets. I am listening to one of my amps I built using Sloans design as I type this. I shelved a top of the line Pioneer Elite receiver in favor of one of my DIY amps. It cannot compare.