Electronics Essentials With Audio Emphasis

Book excerpt: Learn electronics as a language! You can select from multiple approaches, including visualization, equivalence, duality, memory aids, and engineering shortcuts to solve electronics problems. After completing this book, you should be able to understand the essentials of electronics, including practical aspects like soldering, how to read component values and project troubleshooting, and foundations like DC and AC analysis, amplifiers, op-amps, and essential passive and active circuits with audio applications. You'll learn how to implement basic, notch, shelving, and parametric filters, various amplifier and op-amp configurations, the difference between cascade and cascode, pro and consumer audio, various amplifier classes, bridged amplifiers, impedance bridging and matching, and common terms used in the industry. In particular, you will be able to read common schematics and charts and be able to interpret manuals of electronic equipment.