Whitaker, Jerry The TAB Guide to Vacuum Tube Audio: Understanding and Building Tube Amps (0071753214)

Learn how to work with vacuum tubes and construct high-quality audio amplifiers on your workbench with help from this hands-on, do-it-yourself resource. The TAB Guide to Vacuum Tube Audio: Understanding and Building Tube Amps explains tube theory and construction practices for the hobbyist.

Seven ready-to-build projects feature step-by-step instructions, detailed schematics, and layout tips. You'll also find out how to tweak the projects, each based on a classic RCA design, for your own custom-built amps.

Coverage includes:

• Principles and operational theory behind vacuum tubes
• Tube nomenclature, applications, and specifications
• Circuit layout, connections, and physical construction
• Finding and selecting the right components for the project
• Power supplies for vacuum tube circuits
• Preamplifier and power amplifier circuits
• Performance measurement
• Safety, maintenance, and troubleshooting techniques
• Tips on building your own tube-based system—and having fun in the process

This book is intended for hobbyists interested in adding the tube sound to any audio system. (Readers looking for high-performance audiophile books are urged to consider the McGraw-Hill books by Morgan Jones.)

Learn more at www.vacuumtubeaudio.info

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