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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:51 pm Post subject: The Audiophile's Project Sourcebook-80 Electronics projects |
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The Audiophile's Project Sourcebook: 80 High-Performance Audio Electronics Projects
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Ooooohhhh! I just found came across this book ... Where were books like this back when I was dabbling in this stuff??
Anyone seen this? Anyone built anything from it?
| Quote: | Review From New Literature Section:
The clear, illustrated schematics and instructions provided in this book allow audio enthusiasts to build high-quality, high-power electronic audio components and testing equipment. The author gives easily comprehensible explanations of the electronics at work, as well as a practical foundation needed for experimentation and modification of existing voltage emplifiers, balanced input driver/receiver circuits, graphic equalizers, and effects circuits. (Poptronics )
From the Back Cover:
THE AUDIOPHILE’S PROJECT SOURCEBOOK
Build audio projects that produce great sound for far less than they cost in the store, with audio hobbyists’ favorite writer Randy Slone. In The Audiophile’s Project Sourcebook, Slone gives you—
• Clear, illustrated schematics and instructions for high-quality, high-power electronic audio components that you can build at home
• Carefully constructed designs for virtually all standard high-end audio projects, backed by an author who answers his email
• 8 power-amp designs that suit virtually any need
• Instructions for making your own inexpensive testing equipment
• Comprehensible explanations of the electronics at work in the projects you want to construct, spiced with humor and insight into the electronics hobbyist’s process
• Complete parts lists
"The Audiophile's Project Sourcebook" is devoid of the hype, superstition, myths, and expensive fanaticism often associated with 'high-end' audio systems. It provides straightforward help in building and understanding top quality audio electronic projects that are based on solid science and produce fantastic sound!
THE PROJECTS YOU WANT, FOR LESS
Balanced input driver/receiver circuits
Signal conditioning techniques
Voltage amplifiers
Preamps for home and stage
Tone controls
Passive and active filters
Parametric filters
Graphic equalizers
Bi-amping and tri-amping filters
Headphone amplifiers
Power amplifiers
Speaker protection systems
Clip detection circuits
Power supplies
Delay circuits
Level indicators
Homemade test equipment |
He's also the author of this book:
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who needs it.
everyone is busy building those pass labs amps......
glad i made the moskido though, it sounds amazing.
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Wish I had that at age 14, I had sooo much free time back then. Until I got my first real turn table. 
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Hey, I still have that mag!  Along with about 2000 others...
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I had a subscription to Radio Electronics when I was a teen. My first issue was May 1986 I think.
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Can't believe I missed this post earlier!
You guys are all young Pups. The best magazine for info and construction projects was "The Audio Amateur" which started in 1970 as I remember. It had articles written by the giants of the audio industry such as Neslon Pass, Curcio, Didden, Jung, Reg Williamson, Thiel & Small, Sanders, Borberly ,etc., etc.
A small company associated with it was "Old Colony Sound Lab" which usually sold circuit boards for the project articles.
I think that that magazine was totally responsible for what is now the "High End" of audio mostly through the excellent articles by Walt Jung on enhancing power supply performance and testing the actual performance of various capacitors and resistors and their effect on audio circuits.
They invented "Pooge" which is exactly what MP, Nash and others are doing on this forum.
The magazine was later joined by "The Speaker Builder", "Glass Audio" which specialized in those two areas of audio and also led the industry in concepts before they ever made it to the mainstream market. The MTM concept that many speaker companies use today was first shown here many years before any were ever made and the technology was explained. They also were the first to enhance the first generations of cd players and explain why.
Can't remember exactly when, but they morphed into "Audio Xpress" about 15 years ago and are not what they used to be. Ed Dell, the editor retired a year or so ago. Don't know how many soldering irons I wore out as a result of his fine magazine.
Wish they were still around.
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Oh yeah AA was the one that started it all for the audiophile builder like myself, great mag and lots of great articles in it over the years. I started getting that mag then Glass Audio then Audio Xpress, never got Speaker builder as a friend of mine was getting it so I just read his. Along with all the other mags I got back then like Radio Electronics, Popular Electronics and another one from Britain Wireless(something) can't remember now what it was called, AA was defiantly the number mag for me. And I still have boxes of the issues that I've kept.
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Walter, you are showing you age now!
I'll bet I have built 20-30 things over the years as a result of the AA. I think the main thing that killed it was the wide spread use of smd's and multilayer throw away boards. Maybe that's why I like these 3 - eyed monsters. You can still work on them and change them if you want to.
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Well I started building audio equipment back in about 1979, so I've been at it for a while. SMD never really slowed me down too much. As for the 3 eyed monsters, I'm sure some of the boards in my Zenith 1200 pro are multi layer boards as they are mostly SMD and some hole through devices on the higher power boards.
Yeah there were some great mags back then, not so much now that I've seen. Every once in a while I visit diyaudio to see what's new on the project list.
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Not specficially audiophile,but this is about the only one left...
http://www.elektor.com/
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Yes - When AA, et al shut down, the publishing company finished out everbody's subscription by transferring to Elektor. It was OK, but not a match for what AA used to be.
Bob
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Yeah Elektor had some okay stuff but nothing like AA is right.
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I think most of the AA, Speaker Builder, etc. stuff from Old Colony Sand Crabs has for all practical purposes migrated to the DIY Audio site.
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Yeah pretty much. Over there you get Nelson Pass, Didden, Jung and a few other guys who still chim in from time to time. Now that's better than reading a mag anyday.
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Just a quick note here. Many years ago a friend of mine had the Quad 405 power amp so I decided to copy it and build my own. I painstakely copied the boards and made copies then built up about 6 of them. It was alot of work and then sourcing parts etc. Of course I put my modding to work and changed a few things, I know the local Quad dealer liked them better than the stock units. Unfortunately QUad didn't appreciate me copieing their product and told me to stop, hell I was only doing it for a hobby not to sell them. Anyway the point of the story is today I see you can buy an exact copy of these boards on Ebay (made in China) for $29 for a pair of tested boards, hmmm. I've been tempted to buy a pair to try.
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| WTS wrote: | | Just a quick note here. Many years ago a friend of mine had the Quad 405 power amp so I decided to copy it and build my own. I painstakely copied the boards and made copies then built up about 6 of them. It was alot of work and then sourcing parts etc. Of course I put my modding to work and changed a few things, I know the local Quad dealer liked them better than the stock units. Unfortunately QUad didn't appreciate me copieing their product and told me to stop, hell I was only doing it for a hobby not to sell them. Anyway the point of the story is today I see you can buy an exact copy of these boards on Ebay (made in China) for $29 for a pair of tested boards, hmmm. I've been tempted to buy a pair to try. |
Within the past few years I noticed designs like the Aleph II were pulled from passdiy, probably over similar concerns of commercial plagiarism in countries like China.
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If I remember correctly, Nelson Pass made a comment in AA (probably with his early PASS A40) that he did not mind anyone building copies for their own use, but that he would certainly go after anyone who started selling them. He even allowed OCSL to sell boards to make it easier.
But that was before the Internet, eBay and Chinese copying of everything.
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