December 2019

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Audiophile Vacuum Tube Amplifiers Volume 2
Design, Construction, Testing, Repairing, And Upgrading

  Audiophile Vacuum Tube Amplifiers Volume 2 ($69.95) is a practical modern reference on audiophile vacuum tube technology! This unique DIY design and construction manual presents the theory and practice of vacuum tube amplification in a balanced way. For those who dislike formulas and want proven, practical, ready-to-build designs, dozens of such commercial, tried and tested circuits are explained and analyzed. Just get your soldering iron ready and start building! Beginners and newbies will benefit from the methodological approach, starting with DC circuits, then moving into AC voltages and currents and their circuits. The first few chapters of Volume 1 are a complete training course in fundamentals of electronics.

Although the focus is on audiophile / hi-fi vacuum tube amplifiers, those interested in tube guitar amplifiers will also benefit from the wealth of material presented, most of which directly applies to tube guitar amps as well. Apart from various audio circuits, electronic components, power supplies and tests & measurements are also covered in depth.

Even tube testing and tube testers are discussed at great length, as is troubleshooting, repairing and modifying (upgrading) tube gear. The advanced topics that other books don't even mention, such as audio transformer design, construction and testing, make this reference manual a valuable addition to your technical library.

For those familiar with solid state-devices such as bipolar transistors and FETs, an easy and seamless transition into tube technology is provided in the book, which adopts a unifying approach to amplification and rectification devices, be they of solid-state or vacuum tube kind. This practical DIY manual is richly and professionally illustrated with photographs of tubes, components and amplifiers, circuit diagrams, tube pinouts, curves and loadlines, graphs and charts.

Hundreds of valuable illustrations make it easy to comprehend a variety of issues. There is no need to search for, download and print such information, and thus saving you valuable time. All the information required to design and build tube amplifiers is compiled in one place.

Recommended by Enjoy the Music.com's Steven R. Rochlin.

You can buy the Audiophile Vacuum Tube Amplifiers Volume 2 from on Amazon at this link.

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