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Title: Best books/websites to start learning about SET audio circuits?
Post by: Downhome Upstate on June 04, 2012, 07:05:10 AM

Hi all,

I'm new here, and haven't touched a soldering iron since 1976 when I finished my one stateside tour in Aerospace Defense Command. They told me I was a computer tech; I knew better. I have forgotten everything that I didn't know from that experience and a later stint working in the street on traffic control devices. 

I really like what I'm seeing on Bottlehead, want to build a system, and would love to (begin to) understand the circuit theory behind the kits' designs So far, however, what I've read is over my head.

Any suggestions about where to start would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help with this.

Best,

Title: Re: Best books/websites to start learning about SET audio circuits?
Post by: jmv on June 04, 2012, 07:11:45 AM

Hi Mike,

I find the following website useful: http://www.allaboutcircuits.com (http://www.allaboutcircuits.com)

Title: Re: Best books/websites to start learning about SET audio circuits?
Post by: Doc B. on June 04, 2012, 07:41:35 AM

Here is the goldmine, thanks to Pete Millett:

http://www.tubebooks.org/technical_books_online.htm (http://www.tubebooks.org/technical_books_online.htm)

There is everything from very basic to very technical stuff in here.

Title: Re: Best books/websites to start learning about SET audio circuits?
Post by: Paul Joppa on June 04, 2012, 09:57:33 AM

For a total beginner, look for a text written for technicians, not a beginning college engineering text. There are some Army training manuals from the fifties and sixties that are said to be pretty good, too.

Title: Re: Best books/websites to start learning about SET audio circuits?
Post by: Downhome Upstate on June 04, 2012, 10:18:41 AM

Thanks much Doc, Paul & jmv.  And whoa! Doc, that link is really something. I'll surely go thru several reams of paper before the month is out. Appreciate it.

Best,

Title: Re: Best books/websites to start learning about SET audio circuits?
Post by: Doc B. on June 04, 2012, 10:33:20 AM

Rider wrote great books for techs rather than engineers. This one from tubebooks.org is fun - makes one imagine vacuum tubes infested with Pac-Man and all his relatives. BTW it's a link to a 9MB PDF. -

http://www.tubebooks.org/Books/rider_inside.pdf (http://www.tubebooks.org/Books/rider_inside.pdf)

Title: Re: Best books/websites to start learning about SET audio circuits?
Post by: 4krow on June 04, 2012, 11:32:09 AM

Well, I also asked about books, and here they are in big red letters.  Thanks guys, I'll dive in a bit at a time.. Wouldn't ya like to see that?

Title: Re: Best books/websites to start learning about SET audio circuits?
Post by: howardnair on June 05, 2012, 01:02:23 AM

here is a good website with lots of links and general info--howie
http://www.diystompboxes.com/pedals/tubedummy.html

Title: Re: Best books/websites to start learning about SET audio circuits?
Post by: howardnair on June 05, 2012, 02:00:09 AM

this is a good follow up-it continues on and on with some interesting and good info-it does not pertain exactly to a stereomour circuit-but it shows and explains very well what is going on within the  a circuit
http://electriciantraining.tpub.com/14178/css/14178_43.htm

Title: Re: Best books/websites to start learning about SET audio circuits?
Post by: Noskipallwd on June 05, 2012, 03:21:24 AM

Welcome Mike, someone here recommended this course, http://www.ebay.com/itm/BASIC-ELECTRICITY-Vol-1-5-Rider-Publication-1954-CD-/160332876923?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item2554958c7b#ht_1979wt_689, it is the Navy's Basic Electronics course from 1954. It is five volumes in PDf format on DVD or CD for 8 bucks, I have learned alot. It made me laugh because all the illustrations look like Doc's Bottlehead badge.

Cheers,
Shawn

Title: Re: Best books/websites to start learning about SET audio circuits?
Post by: Downhome Upstate on June 05, 2012, 05:11:51 AM

Thanks, Howard & Shawn. I've now got my reading assignments for the next few months.  :o