Valve Amplifiers is a market leader for one simple reason: in this specialist area it is recognized as the most complete guide to valve and vacuum tube amplifier design, modification, analysis, construction and maintenance. It is truly the all you need to know guide, and enables audio and circuit designers to succeed with their valve amplifier designs and projects.
This book enables readers to understand, create, reconfigure and personalize high-end, audiophile quality amplifiers. Following a step-by-step approach to design, with little maths and lots of know-how, it starts with a brief review of electronic fundamentals relevant to valve amplifiers, simple stages, compound stages, linking stages together, and finally, complete designs.
The new material included in this Fourth Edition ensures this book will stay at the top of any audio designers or enthusiasts reference list.
VA3s focus was on distortion, but in VA4, focus is pushed towards background noise reduction. If that wasnt enough, theres more explanation, more measurements, more references, and plenty of new one-liners, any one of which might save hours of trouble.