The Audiophile's Project Sourcebook: 80 High-Performance Audio Electronics Projects 1st Edition

Randy Slone has provided a book to live on for his readers to learn from his vast knowledg and experience base building amps and electronic projects for his work and hobby. I read and read this volume for knowledge and entertainment. This is not exclusive information, but here it is presented so the expermenter or hobbiest can follow along, build and experment with his own projects. I don't know where one first learns what Randy Slone knew about audio electronics, but if you know the basics of electronics you can gain alot from his writhing. I highly recommend this book for study and just good reading.

Es muy buen libro fue un regalo para mi hermano y le gusto mucho.

The book itself is fantastic. Has many interesting designs and works to dispel lingering myths about Audio Devices. I have -0- complaints about the book itself. Do yourself a huge favor and buy a physical copy for your workbench.OTOH: The Kindle Edition sucks big time. About 50% of the schematics are unreadable! You cannot zoom in or see the various components at a useful detail level to determine values or part numbers, making the whole book (on kindle) useless for constructing the projects within. I have excellent vision, and my computers (3 Macs, 4 PCs) are equipped with excellent Monitors, but none of them (nor my phone or kindle) displays these troubled schematics adequately. This is flat ridiculous... I am running the latest Kindle software on both my PCs and Macs. It is offensive to me that Amazon will not add this critical and easily coded function into the software. They may think it's clever to leave it out so people will buy a physical Kindle (which CAN zoom), but its going to cost them in the end, I am already buying more books second-hand and will be avoiding ANY and ALL kindle books in the future until the Zoom functions are added to the Mac and PC versions of the software. As a result of my warnings and comments 5 other people will not be buying kindle books or devices until this is corrected, if at all. 3 of them are constantly buying books and technology... figure it out Amazon.Update about Kindle Zoom: 03/06/2011 - I upgraded my copy of Kindle for Android (For my Droid Mk. 1) and now I can zoom in on my PHONE... Still NO change on the zoom on PC or Mac, despite 2 software updates since.

Not for the newbie to electronics, but very detailed and interesting to read. The author apparently replies to emails to him (I have not sent him any) based on previous reviews. The designs are included and give me confidence to build my own amplifier. I've owned a Bose 321 system, and after that crapped out, I swore I would go the DIY-route. This book is the result of searching for a design book that is not a textbook for college (zzzzzzzz).The beginning of the book is the best description of why some of us are audiophiles, couldn't have said it better!

This book is well written and full of excellent information. Even if you decide to not build any of the electronics circuits detailed in the book, the information detailed in the book will be very useful to anyone who wants to understand the details of working with audio and audio equipment.

This is a reasonable source book for the beginning or intermediate builder. The included circuits are common place and not of particular interest to advanced Audiophiles. The information is sound, apart from a couple of errors, but is probably not adequate to fully understand the circuits.Unfortunately, this kindle version continues the underwhelming trend to include illegible graphics in electronic texts. Many of the schematics are barely legible, with some component values very difficult to read. To be fair, I also see this in some traditional books on technical subjects as well.If you are serious about learning audio circuits, I recommend Douglas Self's series, although at considerably greater cost. If you just want a cookbook of common circuits, this will do.

Slone covers a wide range of audio projects in this book: amplifiers, preamplifiers, filters, and protection circuits. The reader is assumed to understand basic electronics terminology, but everything else is explained point by point. An easy-to-read format supplies just enough theory for understanding the circuit, then goes right to the practical application. Slone even provides 1:1 scale artwork of numerous designs for those who want to etch their own circuit boards. For those wanting to go deeper into amplifier theory than what is presented here, this book is an execllent companion for Slone's in-depth treatment of the subject, the High-Power Audio Amplifier Construction Manual.

You definitely can tell that the author read the books by Self and specially Cordell, since many of the designs are direct applications of those books. That being said, the book delivers what it promises which is a good introduction to several audio projects and the ready-made circuits for the audio enthusiast. The major gripe I have with this and the other books of Mr. Slone, is that the pcb masks are printed on the book rather that providing a CD with the mask files, this means that in order to build the circuits at the end of the book you cant just photocopy a page without taking the book apart, you have to either cut the page or open the book so much that the spine breaks and only then you are able to photocopy the entire page properly without cutting it, the editor should consider including a CD or offer a plastic/metal comb version of the book so you can easily open the book and photocopy the circuits you want to build.