Preface to Fifth Edition

 

You will have noted from the increased weight of this book that it has been signifi cantly expanded. The text has increased in size by more than 50%, and there are a hundred new illustrations.

There is a completely new chapter on the Class-XD system that I recently introduced at Cambridge Audio; an amplifi er utilizing this system won an Innovation award at Chicago CES, January 2008.

There is also a big new chapter on balanced line inputs and balanced interconnections in general. These are becoming more and more common in the hi-fi fi eld and have always been of prime importance in professional amplifi er systems. This is a vital topic as without good interconnection technology the signal quality is irrevocably compromised ...

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