The Audiophile's Project Sourcebook Hardcover – Illustrated, 27 Sept. 2001

GREAT BOOK WHAT ELSE CAN SAYTHANKSSAT

I found this book very useful, exactly what I need. All the diagrams and schematics are very detailed and even includes the artwork. A must have item for any DIY Audio person!

This is a great book. It contains diagrams for projects such as power amplifiers power amplifiers, headphone amplifiers, RIAA amplifiers, audio filter circuits and more.So far I made the headphone amplifier, and my next project will be the two band active filter.Here comes my criticism though. Must of the circuits has an images of the printed circuit board, ready to use so you can make your own boards. But - the two projects I will be making, has no PCB so I will have to do that myself. I bet the author has a fancy program that could make a PCB in seconds.Also it would be help full if all the projects were accompanied with a bill of materials, so you wouldn't have to go through the entire schematics your self to make a list of needed components.

The sourcebook is well compiled and a comprehensive resource for the DIY Audiophile.

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Excellent

Just what I was looking for.There are an Cacophony of Audio processing diagrams available on line. None of which really hit the target.Raising the question: 'What do the Big boys in the real world of professional audio do ?.I bought the Kindle version but found that the Graphic resolution was too low to properly read the component values. Zooming in made a splodge into a bigger splodge ! (PDF formatting would have been much better).So I returned for re-fund and purchased the Printed copy.A Source manual rather than a Text book and so lacks the in-depth mathematics needed to justify choice of components values for the Filter Circuits for example-or maybe I overlooked them on account of the poor Kindle version resolution.My decision to pay more for the Printed version reflects the high regard I and others have for this book and its Author.

The theory in this book is sound and is understandable. The author presents his designs well, and if you have a good knowledge of analog electronics it is easy to follow. The reason I only give two stars is that the book shows its age by using obsolete components and ignoring more modern technologies like the latest ultra low noise op-amps and newer components which make Class D and Class Z amplifiers comparable to the designs presented in this book. Readers looking to use this book as a source of ready-to-build projects may be disappointed. I found that many of the semiconductors used in the designs presented in the book are no longer available - or at least only through suppliers stocking used parts or surplus. When you start scouring the data sheets for modern equivalents, it becomes obvious that more modern devices with better specs are now available, and again the book shows its age.

This book is well written and full of excellent information. Even if you decide to not build any of the electronics circuits detailed in the book, the information detailed in the book will be very useful to anyone who wants to understand the details of working with audio and audio equipment.

I own all three of Mr. Slone's books, and they are great for a beginner in the audio field. If you are willing to learn some maths, and do serious experimentation, you will outgrow these books (and find a bunch of mistakes in them along the way), but they are a great starting point, and the material covered (Amps, front-ends, effects, noise issues, slew-rates, poles/zeroes, etc.) is universally applicable to many other fields in electronics. Tube amps, are not covered in this book, and rightly so, they represent a technology replaced a long time ago. BJT and MOSFET amps are covered with various circuits for each type, as are op-amp and transistor based preamps, volume controls, equalizers, effects, tone controls, protection circuits, power supplies, etc. In the book each circuit is introduced, a few guidelines are given about design consideration, then there is some discussion about the measured distortion, noise, PSSR etc. of the design and finally the schematic and negative pcb layouts are provided. Unfortunately, not having a companion CD, means you will have to redo the layouts in software if you are planning to send this to a fab house.Overall, a worthwhile book to start with - as long as you also investigate some of the circuits and their issues online, or are wiling to invest enough time to fix them by experimenting. Mr Slone, while not the most technical of audio designers, has a great easy to read style and is refreshingly objective - you won't get any "audiophoolery here". He has a lot of audio wisdom to impart, though a lot of it is old-school now. If you are looking for switching power supplies, Class D amps, or microcontroller/microprocessor based control or protection, you won't find any circuits here.

Not everybody can start building audio devices without having certain technical knowledge of electronics. Just consider the etching of the printed circuit., the location of critical components like wires, transformers, heat sinks , etc...A good book for the trained tech searching for nice project to build and save a huge amount of money.

l'ho trovato interessantissimo con tantissime soluzioni per chi ha un po' di esperienza nel settore elettronico vi permette di autocostruirvi ampli con potenze ragguardevoli con la sicurezza di schemi attendibili e validi.consigliatissimo

Great addition to any electronics or hobbiest library!