Audio Cyclopedia - A highly recommended book

One often sees references on this group to RDH, but very
few people seem to know about the excellent book entitled
Audio Cyclopedia, by Howard Tremaine, who was a designer
at McCurdy Industries, a Canadian company manufacturing
studio and broadcast equipment.

The book, in question and answer format, is comprised of 25 sections,
with more than 1700 pages. The second edition, fourth printing, which
is the edition most often seen, was published in 1975, is mainly tube/valve
orientated but does also have some SS circuits.

Chapters include:

Basic Principles of Sound
Acoustics, Studio techniques.
Microphones,
Attenuators,
Vacuum Tubes, Transistors and Diodes,
Audio Amplifiers,
Disc Recording,
Cutting Heads
Magnetic Recording
Loudspeakers.
Power Supplies,
Test Equipment.
Audio-frequency measurement
Installation
Charts and tables.

I am told by a former colleague from the UK who worked also at
Canadian Broadcasting that the book was one of their training manuals.

Highly recommended!

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Iain



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