Expanded Second Edition out now
ISBN 0-7506-8166-7

Updated: 14 Jan 2010

Available from all good bookshops and probably some bad ones too.

395 pages. Published by Newnes, an imprint of Elsevier. Ordering info from: Elsevier Amazon UK Amazon USA

Self On Audio is a collection of the articles I have published in Electronics World/Wireless World over the last few years. It gives access to a huge amount of information that is otherwise no longer easy to obtain. Available from any big bookshop, or Amazon, or Elsevier direct: see links at left. Contents INTRODUCTION DATE PUBLISHED Commentary on amplifier technology over the last 25 years . ON PREAMPLIFIERS 1 An Advanced Preamplifier MRP1 Nov 1976 2 High-Performance Preamp MRP4 Feb 1979 3 Precision Preamplifier MRP10 Oct 1983 4 Moving-Coil Head Amp Dec 1987 5 Preamp '96 Part 1 Jul/Aug 1996 6 Preamp '96 Part 2 Sep 1996 7 "Overload Matters" (RIAA overload) Feb 1997 8 Balanced Line inputs and outputs, Part 1 Apr 1997 9 Balanced Line inputs and outputs, Part 2 May 1997 10 High-Quality Compressor/Limiter Dec 1975 11 Inside Mixers Apr 1991 12 Electronic Analogue Switching: Part 1 Jan 2004 13 Electronic Analogue Switching: Part 2 Feb 2004 . ON POWER AMPLIFIERS 14 Sound Mosfet Design Sept 1990 15 Power FETs versus BJTs May 1995 16-23 Distortion In Power Amplifiers 1-8 Aug 93-Mar 1994 24 Power Amplifier Input Currents May 2003 25 Distortion Residuals & Diagnosis Jan 1998 26 A Trimodal Amplifier Part 1 June 1995 27 A Trimodal Amplifier Part 2 July 1995 28 Load-invariant power amplifier Jan 1997 29 Common-Emitter Amplifiers July 1994 30 Two-stage Amplifiers Sept 1995 31 Excess speaker currents Feb 1998 32 Class Distinction (amp classification) Mar 1999 33 Relay control July 1999 34 Power Partition Diagrams Part 1 Aug 1999 35 Audio Power Analysis (Power Partition Diagrams Part 2) Dec 1999

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