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ISBN 0750649755
Written
by a team of experts and specialist contributors, this comprehensive
guide has proved to be an invaluable resource for professional
designers and service engineers. Each chapter is written by
a leading author, including Don Aldous, Nick Beer, John Borwick,
Dave Berriman, John Linsley Hood, Geoff Lewis and John Watkinson,
which provides as wide a perspective as possible on high-quality
sound reproduction as well as a wealth of expertise. The third
edition includes new chapters on servicing, Nicam stereo and
digital satellite radio. For the first time in paperback,
this revised edition features a completely new chapter on
the most recent digital developments, CD-R/RW, HDCD, Internet
audio, MP3 players and DAM-CD. Ian Sinclair has written over
140 books on aspects of electronics and computing and has
been a regular contributor to the electronics and computing
press.
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ISBN 007069429X
David
B. Weems is an acknowledged expert in speaker systems and
speaker enclosures. He has written several books, including
all four editions of Designing, Building, and Testing Your
Own Speaker Systems with Projects and the first edition of
this volume. Weems also has contributed numerous articles
on speaker systems to such widely read electronics publications
as Audio, High Fidelity, Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics,
and Speaker Builder.
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ISBN 0750637889
Vintage
Radio, Television and Hi-Fi are highly popular 'modern antiques'
- and offer the added challenge for restorers of the repair
of classic valve-based circuits. This highly readable book
encompasses all aspects of buying, collecting, restoring,
repairing, sourcing parts, professional services, clubs and
societies, etc. Covering the technical side as well as collecting,
this book offers the most comprehensive coverage available.
The first half of the book deals primarily with technical
aspects of restoration, what components are needed and where
they can be found. The second half of the book provides a
wealth of useful information: names and addresses of clubs
and societies, auctions and antique fairs; a professional
services directory; how to get hold of service data. Armed
with this book the enthusiast will be able to tackle the restoration
of a vintage machine with confidence.
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ISBN 0905705408
Top
of the range hi-fi apparatus is now termed 'high-end equipment'
and the name is a good indication of the prices charged for
it. For those who can not, or will not, pay these prices,
there is another solution offered in this book: build your
own (at considerable cost savings). But this book is aimed
not only at this sector of the market, but also at the many
enthusiasts who want to be able to experiment and make their
own modifications to their 'high-end' equipment. This book
contains construction projects for solid-state and valve preamplifiers
and power amplifiers, active cross-over filters, an active
subwoofer, a mono/stereo compressor and a headphone amplifier.
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ISBN 0071341196
This
complete nuts-and-bolts manual offers expert guidance on choosing
and building quality high-power audio amplifiers; Covers amplifier
operation and explains each design approach for optimal performance;
Discusses various amp designs tailor-made for all kinds of
applications, including professional and recreational; Twelve
complete amplifier projects, with full details on design,
parts, PC board artwork, and construction; This complete nuts-and-bolts
manual offers expert guidance on choosing and building quality
high-power audio amplifiers; Covers amplifier operation and
explains each design approach for optimal performance; Discusses
various amp designs tailor-made for all kinds of applications,
including professional and recreational; Twelve complete amplifier
projects, with full details on design, parts, PC board artwork,
and construction.
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ISBN 0750642378
Service
engineers and technicians have come to regard this book as
essential to their work. As a bench-side companion and guide
it has no equal. Its purpose is to ease and speed up the processes
of fault diagnosis, repair and testing of all classes of home
audio equipment: receivers, amplifiers, recorders and playback
machines. The mechanics and electronics of domestic audio
are examined by Nick Beer in a down-to-earth and practical
way, concentrating on what goes wrong, how to track down problems,
and how to solve them.
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ISBN 0862962420
Hi-fi
fans and music lovers have waited long enough: at last, the
history of one of the most important forms of home entertainment
of the last half-century has been written by the men and women
who made it happen. They tell the tale from the first vinyl
record to the iPod, from pre-WWII beginnings to the era of
the download. Because the saga of hi-fi runs concurrently
with the span of Hi-Fi News, the UK's oldest and most respected
audio magazine, Sound Bites is also a celebration of the famed
journal's 50th anniversary. Since 1956, when Hi-Fi News was
launched on the wave of excitement about high fidelity reproduction
of music in the home, the audio industry has boomed,retrenched,
boomed, retrenched and boomed again. All along, it's been
packed with larger-than life characters, people of enormous
talent, technical expertise, bad haircuts, business acumen,
warped humour and Rabelaisian appetites. And some less desirable
qualities, too. This book is their story, in their own words,
with contributions from the editors, top contributors and
a parade of characters that range from electronics wizards
to eccentric salesmen to crazed audiophiles.
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ISBN 1840005068
This
book traces the development of audio design by decade, from
the LP record, the birth of hi-fi and the first transistors
in the 1950s, through the Japanese hi-fi boom of the 60s and
70s, the CD and the Walkman in the 80s, to the MP3 and DVD
players of today. A specification is provided for each piece,
along with a history of the design and its place in the development
of both the audio industry and contemporary music. In addition,
special features are included in each chapter on the music
and culture of the time, highlighting the ongoing relationship
between hi-fi design and popular culture. A wide range of
high-quality audio design is gathered together, including
work by major figures such as Dieter Rams, Marco Zanuso and
Philippe Starck, and each piece of equipment is illustrated.
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ISBN 0071379290
This
text contains 120 illustrated, step-by-step, audio electronic
projects, complete with parts lists. Broken down topically,
the book presents each of the projects in a cookbook format
complete with tested schematics and a parts list. It features
the four best audio power amplifier designs, and inexpensive
home-made testing equipment. It is suitable for the do-it-yourself
enthusiast and weekend warrior.
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ISBN 0750639954
This
book is not only an essential read for every professional
working with antique radio and gramophone equipment, but also
dealers, collectors and valve technology enthusiasts the world
over. The emphasis is firmly on the practicalities of repairing
and restoring, so technical content is kept to a minimum,
and always explained in a way that can be followed by readers
with no background in electronics. Those who have a good grounding
in electronics, but wish to learn more about the practical
aspects, will benefit from the emphasis given to hands-on
repair work, covering mechanical as well as electrical aspects
of servicing. Repair techniques are also illustrated throughout.
This book is an expanded and updated version of Chas Miller's
classic Practical Handbook of Valve Radio Repair. Full coverage
of valve amplifiers will add to its appeal to all audio enthusiasts
who appreciate the sound quality of valve equipment.
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