The Audiophile’s Project Sourcebook: 80 High-Performance Audio Electronics Projects
Provides a technology overview of what goes into a high performance loudspeaker and covers all the latest advances in the field
The design of high performance loudspeakers requires a mix of developed skills in electroacoustics, high fidelity sound reproduction and subjective evaluation. Taking a designer’s view of the subject, this new edition of High Performance Loudspeakers, Seventh Edition provides a comprehensive, timely and practical knowledge base to aid the design of superior loudspeaker systems fit for purpose. It is updated throughout with the latest progress in research and technology, synthesis and analysis, digital signal processing incorporated products, automated production test systems and wireless compact designs.
This Seventh Edition of the highly successful guide to the design and specifications of high quality loudspeakers and loudspeaker systems addresses the issue of where higher performance and sound quality is required and shows how the numerous considerations ― including application, target price, size, aspiration and particular market ― lead to a complex mix of design and engineering decisions. The book has also been substantially revised to reflect the many changes in the technology of loudspeakers and includes two brand new chapters ― one covering ultra-compact systems and DSP integration, and the second providing details of a worked example of the loudspeaker systems design process.
- Offers a complete overview of the technology
- Thoroughly updated with new content to reflect the latest advances in the field while retaining the firm theoretical foundation of previous editions
- Presents a designer's point of view of the field, helping to equip both amateur enthusiasts and academically trained graduates with industry practice
- Covers all the newest developments in the field of high performance loudspeakers
- Offers a critical and objective approach to all subjects covered, rather than a simple spelling out of theory and facts
- Appeals to both amateur speaker builders as a source of ideas, and to professional speaker designers with an overview of competitive products and features
Acknowledged industry-wide as the definitive work on speaker design and analysis, High Performance Loudspeakers, Seventh Edition is essential reading for audio engineers, speaker designers, equipment designers and students of acoustic engineering, electronics and electro-acoustics. It will also prove invaluable to students of electronics, broadcasting and recording techniques, but will also be of interest to authors and journalists in audio, and not least, amateur loudspeaker builders and enthusiasts.
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THE AUDIOPHILE’S PROJECT SOURCEBOOK
Build audio projects that produce great sound for far less than they cost in the store, with audio hobbyists’ favorite writer Randy Slone. In The Audiophile’s Project Sourcebook, Slone gives you―
• Clear, illustrated schematics and instructions for high-quality, high-power electronic audio components that you can build at home
• Carefully constructed designs for virtually all standard high-end audio projects, backed by an author who answers his email
• 8 power-amp designs that suit virtually any need
• Instructions for making your own inexpensive testing equipment
• Comprehensible explanations of the electronics at work in the projects you want to construct, spiced with humor and insight into the electronics hobbyist’s process
• Complete parts lists
"The Audiophile's Project Sourcebook" is devoid of the hype, superstition, myths, and expensive fanaticism often associated with 'high-end' audio systems. It provides straightforward help in building and understanding top quality audio electronic projects that are based on solid science and produce fantastic sound!
THE PROJECTS YOU WANT, FOR LESS
Balanced input driver/receiver circuits
Signal conditioning techniques
Voltage amplifiers
Preamps for home and stage
Tone controls
Passive and active filters
Parametric filters
Graphic equalizers
Bi-amping and tri-amping filters
Headphone amplifiers
Power amplifiers
Speaker protection systems
Clip detection circuits
Power supplies
Delay circuits
Level indicators
Homemade test equipment
Explore this indispensable update to a popular graduate text on electric drive techniques and the latest converters used in industry
The Second Edition of High Performance Control of AC Drives with Matlab®/Simulink delivers an updated and thorough overview of topics central to the understanding of AC motor drive systems. The book includes new material on medium voltage drives, covering state-of-the-art technologies and challenges in the industrial drive system, as well as their components, and control, current source inverter-based drives, PWM techniques for multilevel inverters, and low switching frequency modulation for voltage source inverters.
This book covers three-phase and multiphase (more than three-phase) motor drives including their control and practical problems faced in the field (e.g., adding LC filters in the output of a feeding converter), are considered.
The new edition contains links to Matlab®/Simulink models and PowerPoint slides ideal for teaching and understanding the material contained within the book. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of:
- A thorough introduction to high performance drives, including the challenges and requirements for electric drives and medium voltage industrial applications
- An exploration of mathematical and simulation models of AC machines, including DC motors and squirrel cage induction motors
- A treatment of pulse width modulation of power electronic DC-AC converter, including the classification of PWM schemes for voltage source and current source inverters
- Examinations of harmonic injection PWM and field-oriented control of AC machines
- Voltage source and current source inverter-fed drives and their control
- Modelling and control of multiphase motor drive system
- Supported with a companion website hosting online resources.
Perfect for senior undergraduate, MSc and PhD students in power electronics and electric drives, High Performance Control of AC Drives with Matlab®/Simulink will also earn a place in the libraries of researchers working in the field of AC motor drives and power electronics engineers in industry.
Discover an up-to-date exploration of Embedded and Fan-Out Waver and Panel Level technologies
In Embedded and Fan-Out Wafer and Panel Level Packaging Technologies for Advanced Application Spaces: High Performance Compute and System-in-Package, a team of accomplished semiconductor experts delivers an in-depth treatment of various fan-out and embedded die approaches.
The book begins with a market analysis of the latest technology trends in Fan-Out and Wafer Level Packaging before moving on to a cost analysis of these solutions. The contributors discuss the new package types for advanced application spaces being created by companies like TSMC, Deca Technologies, and ASE Group. Finally, emerging technologies from academia are explored.
Embedded and Fan-Out Wafer and Panel Level Packaging Technologies for Advanced Application Spaces is an indispensable resource for microelectronic package engineers, managers, and decision makers working with OEMs and IDMs. It is also a must-read for professors and graduate students working in microelectronics packaging research.
Over the past several decades, applications permeated by advances in digital signal processing have undergone unprecedented growth in capabilities. The editors and authors of High Performance Embedded Computing Handbook: A Systems Perspective have been significant contributors to this field, and the principles and techniques presented in the handbook are reinforced by examples drawn from their work.
The chapters cover system components found in today’s HPEC systems by addressing design trade-offs, implementation options, and techniques of the trade, then solidifying the concepts with specific HPEC system examples. This approach provides a more valuable learning tool, Because readers learn about these subject areas through factual implementation cases drawn from the contributing authors’ own experiences.
Discussions include:
- Key subsystems and components
- Computational characteristics of high performance embedded algorithms and applications
- Front-end real-time processor technologies such as analog-to-digital conversion, application-specific integrated circuits, field programmable gate arrays, and intellectual property–based design
- Programmable HPEC systems technology, including interconnection fabrics, parallel and distributed processing, performance metrics and software architecture, and automatic code parallelization and optimization
- Examples of complex HPEC systems representative of actual prototype developments
- Application examples, including radar, communications, electro-optical, and sonar applications
The handbook is organized around a canonical framework that helps readers navigate through the chapters, and it concludes with a discussion of future trends in HPEC systems. The material is covered at a level suitable for practicing engineers and HPEC computational practitioners and is easily adaptable to their own implementation requirements.
Fantastic – Kindle ED flawed. The book itself is fantastic. Has many interesting designs and works to dispel lingering myths about Audio Devices. I have -0- complaints about the book itself. Do yourself a huge favor and buy a physical copy for your workbench.OTOH: The Kindle Edition sucks big time. About 50% of the schematics are unreadable! You cannot zoom in or see the various components at a useful detail level to determine values or part numbers, making the whole book (on kindle) useless for constructing the projects within. I have excellent vision, and my computers (3 Macs, 4 PCs) are equipped with excellent Monitors, but none of them (nor my phone or kindle) displays these troubled schematics adequately. This is flat ridiculous… I am running the latest Kindle software on both my PCs and Macs. It is offensive to me that Amazon will not add this critical and easily coded function into the software. They may think it’s clever to leave it out so people will buy a physical Kindle (which CAN zoom), but its going to cost them in the end, I am already buying more books second-hand and will be avoiding ANY and ALL kindle books in the future until the Zoom functions are added to the Mac and PC versions of the software. As a result of my warnings and comments 5 other people will not be buying kindle books or devices until this is corrected, if at all. 3 of them are constantly buying books and technology… figure it out Amazon.Update about Kindle Zoom: 03/06/2011 – I upgraded my copy of Kindle for Android (For my Droid Mk. 1) and now I can zoom in on my PHONE… Still NO change on the zoom on PC or Mac, despite 2 software updates since.
Good to self studying. A good text material for electrical enegineering students studying. Information on simulink models of the electric drives is clearly given for readers.
Filled with good designs, interesting to read. Not for the newbie to electronics, but very detailed and interesting to read. The author apparently replies to emails to him (I have not sent him any) based on previous reviews. The designs are included and give me confidence to build my own amplifier. I’ve owned a Bose 321 system, and after that crapped out, I swore I would go the DIY-route. This book is the result of searching for a design book that is not a textbook for college (zzzzzzzz).The beginning of the book is the best description of why some of us are audiophiles, couldn’t have said it better!
Topics are treated exhaustively and rigorously (with their mathematical complexity), the reference to the simulation examples are effective but I would have expected to have access (with some kind of license) to sw to develop the algorithms presented from real applications
Great book for newbies. Although this book took a quite circuitous route to get here (Colorado Springs/Utah/Nevada/back to Colorado Springs) I have already dabbled with a couple of the projects and found them well thought out and presented. I would, however, avoid the Kindle version simply because the schematics are too small to read.
It’s a book full of detail’s so it is difficult to review such a comprehensive work after only a few weeks. But it is a must read if you seriously want to study loudspeaker design. The way difficult topics are explained is unique and the author has a lot of experience.
What a mountain of information about loudspeakers.It explains in great detail what you need to know.It does get abit too technical in parts that if you do not have an electronics background.
Excellent read. Not for the casual hobbyist. This is an intensive, detailed text. At this price though, a hard bound version would be expected.
This book is well written and full of excellent information. 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.
Not useful unless you are a subjectivist. At first, there appears to be a wealth of technical information, as there are lots of graphs and some equations and design factors. However, in the end, this turns out to be more of a sop to the golden ear camp of audio, and is not very useful for the engineering oriented practitioner. I had hoped for more useful information not found in other, less comprehensive books.
Regalo. Es muy buen libro fue un regalo para mi hermano y le gusto mucho.