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The sound of silence : lowest-noise RIAA phono-1mps designer's guide
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Berlin : Springer, 2008
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xii, 352 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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9783540768838

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There is a wide field of tasks left that can only be satisfyingly attacked with the help of old-fashioned analogue technology, and one of the most important are amplifiers for analogue signals - such as for audio purposes. The content of this book will lead to affordable phono amplifier design approaches which will end up in lowest-noise solutions not far away from the edge of physical boundaries set by room temperature and given cartridges - thus, fully compatible with very expensive so called a oehigh-enda or a oestate-of-the-arta offers on today markets - and, from a noise point of view in most cases outperforming them!With easy to follow mathematical treatment it is demonstrated as well that theory is not far away from reality. Measured SNs will be found within 1dB off the calculated ones and deviations from the exact amplifier transfer won't cross the A 0.1dB tolerance lines. Additionally, the book presents measurement set-ups and results. Consequently, comparisons with measurement results of test magazine will soon become easier to perform.


Table of Contents

Part I Theory
1 Amps, Pre-Amps, Pre-Pre-Ampsp. 3
2 RIAA Transfer/Anti-RIAA Transferp. 9
3 Noise Basicsp. 17
3.1 Noise in Components and Other General Noise Effectsp. 17
3.2 Noise in Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJTs)p. 36
3.3 Noise in Field Effect Transistors (FETs)p. 55
3.4 Noise in Valves (US: Tubes)p. 71
3.5 Noise in Operational Amplifiers (Op-Amps)p. 86
3.6 Noise in Instrumentation Amps (In-Amps)p. 93
3.7 Noise in Transformers (Trafos)p. 106
3.8 Noise of Vinyl Records (VRs) - On how much Phono-Amp SN is Needed?p. 125
Part II Best Practice
4 Noise in MM Cartridgesp. 149
5 Noise in MM Cartridges - Mathematical Calculation Coursep. 171
6 Noise in MC Phono-Ampsp. 181
7 Noise in MC Phono-Amps - Mathematical Calculation Coursep. 205
8 RIAA Networksp. 227
9 RIAA Networks - Mathematical Calculation Coursep. 255
Part III Noise Measurement System
10 System Overviewp. 279
11 Measurement Ampsp. 285
12 Measurement Filters and Networksp. 291
Part IV The RIAA Phono-Amp Engine
13 Overviewp. 303
14 Module 1p. 309
15 Module 2p. 311
16 Module 3p. 313
17 Engine Performancep. 319
Part V Book-Ending Sections
List of Figuresp. 329
List of Tablesp. 339
Constants, Abbreviations, Symbolsp. 341
Indexp. 345
Epiloguep. 351
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