Part one of the less popular and much more brief third edition of the Radiotron Designers Handbook [0] is probably my favorite writeup but is very dense and covers a good deal of stuff in those ~80 pages. Aiken Amps White Papers [1] is pretty good and the first amplifier I designed (and built) was completely done through those pages, still have that amp and have sold it twice and bought it back twice. The Valve Wizard's writeup on common cathode gain stages [2] is also quite good and I would have bought his books based off it if I had not found them right when I was leaving this stuff behind.
0. https://archive.org/details/radiotrondesigne00unse/mode/2up 1. https://aikenamps.com/index.php/white-papers 2. https://www.valvewizard.co.uk/Common_Gain_Stage.pdf
I'll have to check out the RDH section. So far I've been working through "Theory and Application of Electron Tubes" by Reich, which as a physics person I've quite enjoyed. I'm guessing the RDH section is a compact summary of the stuff in Reich's book.
> Aiken Amps White Papers [1] is pretty good and the first amplifier I designed (and built) was completely done through those pages, still have that amp and have sold it twice and bought it back twice.
I'd already stumbled across his stuff before, but didn't realize there was a nice organized listing of everything, so thanks for that. Looks like he has a useful bibliography too, from which I just found several interesting reads: https://aikenamps.com/index.php/a-bibliography-of-must-have-...
Aside, another bibliography I've found useful (complete with PDFs): http://www.tubebooks.org/
Howard Tremaine's books are quite good and it looks like Aiken left off his Passive Audio Network Design, which was probably sensible but it can not be beat if you want to really understand the stuff in the guitar and better understand the stuff between the tubes which are often passive audio networks. But it might be a bit too in depth for most, I really enjoy passive design and probably have a blind spot here.
Ah, I see, good to know.
> Howard Tremaine's books are quite good and it looks like Aiken left off his Passive Audio Network Design, which was probably sensible but it can not be beat if you want to really understand the stuff in the guitar and better understand the stuff between the tubes which are often passive audio networks. But it might be a bit too in depth for most, I really enjoy passive design and probably have a blind spot here.
I haven't heard of his stuff yet, I'll have to look into them, thanks! No worries about it being too in-depth, I'm usually more concerned with things not going in-depth enough! I get practicality and conciseness being a concern and all, but I like knowing the why's behind the what's.
Note for those who are as confused as I initially was: Passive Audio Network Design is by Howard Tremaine, not Aiken.
Edit: Just scooped up the only copy of Passive Audio Network Design I could find. Should be here by Monday!
