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How to gain gain

A Reference Book on Triodes in Audio Pre-Amps

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  • Summary of all the gain producing possibilities of triodes on one spot
  • Shows how to calculate first - and spent money for expensive components later
  • Gain making elements far away from silicon: Vacuum valves and audio transformers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. The Common Cathode Gain Stage (CCS)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 1-13
  3. The Cathode Follower (CF)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 25-47
  4. The Common Grid Gain Stage (CGS)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 49-59
  5. Constant Current Generators (CCG)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 61-79
  6. The Cascode Amplifier (CAS)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 81-99
  7. The μ-Follower Gain Stage (μ-F)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 121-142
  8. The Aikido Gain Stage (AIK)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 143-171
  9. Cascoded Cathode Follower (CCF)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 173-191
  10. White Cathode Follower (WCF)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 193-208
  11. Triodes in Parallel Operation (PAR):

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 209-214
  12. Balanced (Differential) Gain Stage (BAL)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 215-231
  13. Feedback (FB)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 233-240
  14. Design Example (EX)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 241-285
  15. Valve data1 (DS)

    • Burkhard Vogel
    Pages 287-292
  16. Back Matter

    Pages 293-312

About this book

The 17 chapters of "How to Gain Gain" give a detailed insight into a collection of the most common gain producing and constant current generating possibilities (28) of triodes for audio pre-amplifier purposes. These chapters also offer complete sets of formulae to calculate gain, frequency and phase responses of certain building blocks built-up with this type of vacuum valve (tube). In all cases detailed derivations of the gain formulae were also presented. All what is needed are the data sheet valve characteristic figures of the triode's mutual conductance, the gain factor and the internal plate (anode) resistance. To calculate frequency and phase responses of gain stages the different data sheet based input and output capacitances have to be taken into account as well. To calculate transfer functions for any kind of triode driven gain stage, including all its bias setting, frequency and phase influencing components, example MathCad worksheets as a second part of each chapter allow easy follow-up and application of the respective formulae. In addition, to demonstrate the differences of feedback and non-feedback relationships, in the last chapter and on MathCad basis, a very extensive and complete calculation example for a three stage linear pre-amplifier as well as a three stage RIAA equalized phono amplifier plays the wind up role of the book.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Buvocon GmbH, 70180 Stuttgart, Germany

    Burkhard Vogel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: How to gain gain

  • Book Subtitle: A Reference Book on Triodes in Audio Pre-Amps

  • Authors: Burkhard Vogel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69505-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08904-6Published: 15 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-69505-9Published: 22 August 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 312

  • Number of Illustrations: 297 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Acoustics, Circuits and Systems

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Buying options

eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access