Small Signal Audio Design, 3rd Edition

Preface

Scientia Potentia Est

• “Another damned thick book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibbon?”
• Attributed to Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in 1781 upon receiving the second volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire from its author.

This book deals with small-signal audio design; the amplification and control of audio in the analogue domain, where the processing is done with opamps or discrete transistors, usually working at a nominal level of a volt or less. It constitutes a major update of the second edition. “Small-signal design” is the opposite term to “large-signal design”, which in audio represents power amplifiers driving loudspeakers rather than the electricity distribution grid ...