Audio Electronics, 2nd Edition

Preface

John Linsley Hood

The progress of ‘audio’ towards the still-distant goal of a perfect imitation of reality has been, and remains, inextricably bound up with the development of electronic components and circuit technology, and with the parallel progress in the various transducers and interface devices used to generate and reproduce electrical signals. However, while in the early years of audio almost all the development work was done in an empirical manner, with ideas being tested experimentally in the studios or listening rooms of those involved – for want of any better way of advancing the design technology – gradually, as our understanding of the technical problems and their solutions increased, the way in which the designers make their ...