Preface to Sixth Edition

 

 

This book appeared in its Fifth edition in 2009. Since then I have done a good deal of research to improve our knowledge of solid-state power amplifiers and their design issues, partly in the course of my consultancy work, and partly in the spirit of scientific enquiry. As a result this edition has been greatly extended, the number of chapters increasing from 21 to 30.

The many new topics include: the characteristics of the audio signal, the principles of distortion, error-correction, non-switching output stages, the details of VAS distortion, push-pull VAS configurations, op amp-array power amplifiers, series output stages, output-inclusive compensation, the optimisation of output coils, the power dissipation in ...

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