Review on Optimized Fluke TPAK Meter Hanging Kit by Jazz Rajasingam

I am a BTEE college graduate; I have been in the industry since 1988 and maintain a good library of technical books and articles past and present. The first Douglas Self book I had was Self On Audio and I was quite disappointed that they were basically reprints of articles with very little design background and no design formulas meaning you had to look for other references. Didn't want to add another Douglas Self book to my library and only bought this one on the recommendation of colleagues on a DIY discussion forum with highly educated members. Small Signal Audio Design is better known as "Small Signal Audio Design Conventions" due to the lack of design equations or circuit descriptions. This may have been a conscious decision by the author, but most of his end-of-chapter references consist primarily of journal articles, Self's own work, and articles from professional associations that require membership to access. Few refer to purely technical references where more in-depth analysis and design equations can be found. I was very disappointed to find many links to Wikipedia articles that were previously questionable and therefore inappropriate in the educational field. Art Of Electronics is the only technical book I've found in a reference book, but even this book isn't enough. In all honesty, this book is best used as a complement to a good project library. If you are a beginner who wants to learn electronic circuits, don't start with this book. The value of this book lies in the fact that it outlines many of the tried-and-true design conventions (hence the suggestion in the title) that have been adopted in audio circuits. in the professional industry. I will admit that my college engineering books are missing such technical information as volume controls (not as simple as you think!), phono and record interfaces, mic preamps and balanced signal interfaces, mixer architectures and subsystems, circuitry, Baxandall tones, etc. This book even touches on (brief) topics of engineering physics, physics of reactive components, their performance and noise artifacts. Discussions about SMT components are very welcome and valuable for every engineer in the THT world. The chapter on filters is terribly short, and as the author suggests, a separate tutorial on the subject is recommended. Analog synthesizer circuits are not discussed. The book may have its flaws, but it is sufficiently focused on AUDIO SYSTEMS. It fills a gap in my library (I love it when I learn something about audio circuits I didn't know) and is a worthy addition to the Audio Cyclopedia, NS Audio/Radio Handbook and my other references.