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Part I Fundamentals of Sound 1. Audio Principles 2. Measurement 3.
Acoustic Environment
Part II. Audio Electronics 4. Components 5. Power supply design
Part III Preamplifiers and Amplifiers 6. Introduction to
Audio Amplification 7. Preamplifiers and input signals 8.
Interfacing and processing 9. Audio amplifiers 10. Audio amplifier
11. Valve (tube-based) amplifiers 12. Negative feedback 13. Noise
and grounding
Part IV Digital Audio 14. Digital audio fundamentals 15.
Representation of Audio Signals 16.Compact disc 17. Digital audio
recording basics 18. Digital audio interfaces 19. Data compression
20. Digital audio production 21. Other Digital Audio Devices
Part V. Microphone and Loudspeaker Technology 22. Microphone
technology 23. Loudspeakers 24. Loudspeaker enclosures 25.
Headphones
Part VI. Sound Reproduction Systems 26. Tape Recording 27.
Recording consoles 28. Video synchronization 29. Room acoustics
Part VII Audio Test and Measurement 30. Fundamentals and
instruments
Douglas Self has a worldwide reputation as a leading authority on
audio amplifier design, but it is perhaps less well known that he
has devoted a good deal of study to small-signal circuitry,
including many years as the chief design engineer at one of the
major mixing console manufacturers, where his achievements included
winning a Design Council Award. His rigorous, skeptical, and
thoroughly practical approach to design has been applied to the
small signal area as well, and some of the results to be found in
this book.
Senior designer of high-end audio amplifiers and contributor to
Electronics World magazine, Douglas has worked with many top audio
names, including Cambridge Audio, TAG-McLaren Audio, and Soundcraft
Electronics. Ben Duncan is well known to many users of audio power
amplifiers around the world, both professional and domestic,
through his hundreds of articles, reviews and research papers on
music technology in the UK and US press, and through his part in
creating several notable professional power amplifiers.Since 1977,
he has been involved in the design of over 70 innovative, high-end
audio products used by recording and broadcast studios, on stages,
in clubs and by the most critical domestic listeners - as well as
creating bespoke equipment for top musicians. Born in London, he
has travelled widely but has lived mainly in Lincolnshire, home of
his family for over 150 years. Outside a wide spectrum of music and
festivals his interests include managing an organic garden,
woodland and nature reserve; industrial archaeology, historic
building restoration, psychic research, and 20th century political,
social and engineering history. He is twice co-author of the book
Rock Hardware in which he has chronicled the history of rock’n’roll
PA. Ian Sinclair was born in 1932 in Tayport, Fife, and graduated
from the University of St. Andrews in 1956. In that year, he joined
the English Electric Valve Co. in Chelmsford, Essex, to work on the
design of specialised cathode-ray tubes, and later on small
transmitting valves and TV transmitting tubes. In 1966, he became
an assistant lecturer at Hornchurch Technical College, and in 1967
joined the staff of Braintree College of F.E. as a lecturer. His
first book, “Understanding Electronic Components was published in
1972, and he has been writing ever since, particularly for the
novice in Electronics or Computing. The interest in computing arose
after seeing a Tandy TRS80 in San Francisco in 1977, and of his 204
published books, about half have been on computing topics, starting
with a guide to Microsoft Basic on the TRS80 in 1979. He left
teaching in 1984 to concentrate entirely on writing, and has also
gained experience in computer typesetting, particularly for
mathematical texts. He has recently visited Seattle to see
Microsoft at work, and to remind them that he has been using
Microsoft products longer than most Microsoft employees can
remember. Ian Sinclair is the author of the following Made Simple
books: Lotus 1-2-3- (2.4 DOS version) MS-DOS (up to version 6.22)
PagePlus for Windows 3.1 Hard drives He is also the author of many
other books published under our Newnes imprint.Visit Ian's website
at http://website.lineone.net/~ian_sinclair Commercial Director of
Miranda Technologies, a global company specialising in television
and channel-branding equipment. Worked previously as a senior
designer in several of Britain’s top broadcast companies.
Previously Richard worked for Pro Bel where he designed the Freeway
product series. For this he was cited in Post Update magazine as
“one of the twelve disciples of TV design. Richard was also
responsible for the stereo enhancement system `Francinstien’ and
the ‘OM’ three-dimensional stereo system. Both these systems have
been used on many records, tapes and CDs as well as on television
and film scores.Richard is author of Multimedia and Virtual
Reality, Music Engineering and Newnes Guide to Digital
Television.Director, Electric Perception Ltd John Linsley Hood
(1925-2004) was head of the electronics research laboratories at
British cellophane, for nearly 25 years. He worked on many
instrumentation projects including width gauges and moisture
meters, and made several inventions which were patented under the
Cellophane name. Prior to his work at British Cellophane he worked
in the electronics laboratory of the Department of Atomic Energy at
Sellafield, Cumbria. He studied at Reading University after serving
in the military as a radar mechanic. Linsley Hood published more
than 30 technical feature articles in Wireless World magazine and
its later incarnation Electronics World. He also contributed to
numerous magazines including Electronics Today. Most recently
Quality Assurance Manager at Accelerix in Ottawa, Canada. Currently
working as an ISO 9000 Quality Assurance Manager for Conexant
Systems Inc. in Ottawa, Canada.Over 25 years of experience in
electronics/semiconductor device technology.Has written for Popular
Electronics and the Electronics Handbook, as well asBeginning
Analog Electronics Through Projects, 2E and Beginning Digital
Electronics Through Projects, Modern Electronics Soldering
Techniques,Dictionary of Modern Electronics Technology, and
Practical Audio Amplifiercircuit Projects Don Davis and his wife,
Carolyn, founded Synergetic Audio Concepts in 1972, he later
retired in 1995. Don is a Senior member of the IEEE, Fellow of the
AES and has received the Heyser Award, Life Time Achievement Award
from NSCA and from USITT, Recognition for participation in the
Brussels World Fair 1958 from the U.S. Dept. of State, and for the
U.S. Exhibition in Moscow in 1959. Eugene Patronis is Professor of
Physics Emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,
Georgia, USA. He has also served as an industrial and governmental
consultant in the fields of acoustics and electronics. John
Watkinson is an independent international consultant in advanced
applications of electronics to audiovisual and avionics systems. He
is a Fellow of the AES, a member of the Society of Expert
Witnesses, and the British Computer Society and is a chartered
information systems practitioner. He presents lectures, seminars
and training courses worldwide. He is the author of many other
Elsevier books, including The Art of DigitalVideo, An Introduction
to Digital Video, Convergence in Broadcast and Communications
Media, Television Fundamentals and The Art of the Helicopter.
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