Review: High-Power Audio Amplifier Construction Manual, Sl..

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Paul wrote:

> It's almost mediocre
>
> This is just another example of why McGraw-Hill made a big mistake in
> picking up TAB-G/L and its fifty year history of bad technical titles
> by people like Homer Davidson, Tom Kneitel K2AES and other so-called
> tech writers. Poor pay rates, lack of any editing whatsoever and a
> willingness by librarians and well-meaning soccer moms of nerds to buy
> anything on the subject kept TAB slaughtering trees for naught for
> most of half a century.
>
> There is some useful information in this book, but not very much. You
> would do better to study schematics of seminal Hafler, Carver (Phase
> Linear), and Threshold designs along with articles in JAES and Audio
> Amateur/AudioXPress magazines. Duncan, Self, and others have written
> substantially better books on the subject.
>
> As for all this "controversy" on tubes, the definitive source is
> indeed still Hamm's JAES paper, "Tubes vs. Transistors". That Slone
> doesn't cite it reveals that he just was too lazy to do his homework
> because it actually reinforced certain of his arguments, or too dense
> to perceive it. This paper has been reprinted so frequently that
> anyone interested will be able to find it easily.

What do they mean by *high power* ?

My beefiest design to date was 1kW /ch. Plenty of companies offer more.
You can't even contemplate using tubes at that power level !

Graham