Newnes_-_Audio_and_Hi-Fi_Handbook__3rd_Ed_-_1998_-__By_Laxxuss_.pdf

Audio and

Hi-Fi Handbook

Audio and

Hi-Fi Handbook

Third Edition

Editor

IAN R. SINCLAIR

Newnes

OXFORD BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI SINGAPORE

Newnes

An imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann

Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP

225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801–2041

A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd

A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group

First published as Audio Electronics Reference Book

by BSP Professional Books 1989

Second edition published by Butterworth-Heinemann 1993

Paperback edition 1995

Third edition 1998

may be reproduced in any material form (including

photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic

means and whether or not transiently or incidentally

to some other use of this publication) without the

written permission of the copyright holder except in

accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,

Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a

licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd,

90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1P 9HE.

Applications for the copyright holder’s written

permission to reproduce any part of this publication

should be addressed to the publishers

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 0 7506 3636 X

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

Typeset by Jayvee, Trivandrum, India

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc

This book is dedicated to the memory of

Fritz Langford-Smith,

Mentor and Friend