Resources

Resources

• Acoustic Treatment and Design for Recording Studios and Listening Rooms by Ethan Winer


• AudioXpress magazine (formerly "Audio Electronics", "Glass Audio","Audio Amateur" and "Speaker Builder")


• Considerations for a High Performance Capacitor by Richard Marsh


• Counterfeit transistorsElliot Sound Products' comments about counterfeit transistors


• DIY A/V RCA Compression Connector Cables Morsel's guide to making audiophile interconnects


• DIY Audio Projectsa collection of audio projects to build, forum, gallery and blog


• DMMs (digital multimeters) A useful synopsis


• Datasheet Archive look up electronic parts datasheets


• Discover Circuits audio circuits for hobbyists


• Eminent Technology's Multimedia Loudspeaker Test sound files of test signals


• JFET biasing tutorial by Wes Hayward


• Krishu.de DIY turntable gallery and other hifi stuff


• LDSG Loudspeaker Driver Selection Guide


• Lynn Olson's "The Art of Speaker Design" discussions about speaker design


• Mil-spec resistors


• MOSFET Testing by Richard Torrens


• Measurements of speaker driver parameters


• Multi-stage differential amplifiers a technical paper


• Nelson Pass (Pass Labs) DIY site


• Picking Capacitors (Part I) and (Part II) by Walt Jung and Richard Marsh


• Per-Anders Sjöström's hifi pages projects, kits, downloads, links, blog, forum, etc.


• RaneNote 110 sound system interconnection


• RaneNote 151 grounding and shielding audio devices


• RightMark Audio Analyzer (RMAA) computer software for testing audio devices


• Sam Electronic Circuits free electronic circuits for the hobbyist


• Standard resistor values defined by the EIA for different tolerance families


• Tangent's Audiologica lots of good info for DIY headphone amplifier fans


• The Amplifier Institute, Douglas Self's audio amplifier engineering analyses and discussions


• "The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz & Hill a superb textbook about electronics


• The Sound of Capacitors by Steve Bench


• W. Marshall Leach's web site with links to his works


• Walt Jung's web site with links to his works


• Tektronix XYZs of Oscilloscopes


• Zener diode reference A handy table of common zener diodes

Web Forums

• AndAudio.com for headphone and DIY enthusiasts in Taiwan and elsewhere (traditional Chinese)


• Audiohall for DIY audio enthusiasts in Taiwan and elsewhere (traditional Chinese)


• Audio Asylum Audio-related forums


• AudioCircle.com Audio-related forums


• diyAudio.com DIY Projects for the fanatics


• diyforums.org for the revised Millett Hybrid headphone amplifier and other DIY audio
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• erji.net Forums for headphone enthusiasts in China (simplified Chinese)


• Headwize.com for headphone enthusiasts


• Head-case.org for headphone enthusiasts


• Head-Fi.org for headphone enthusiasts


• headphoneamp.co.kr for headphone and amplifier DIY enthusiasts in Korea (Korean)


• ipastudio.com for iPod® enthusiasts with sub-forums on DIY audio


• ourfootprints subform on computer/audio/video for overseas Chinese (traditional Chinese and English)


• sgheadphones.net for headphone and amplifier DIY enthusiasts in Singapore

Online Calculators

• Capacitor value unit conversion


• dB to voltage gain calculator


• Voltage gain to dB calculator


• A collection of calculators for electronics


• LED current-limiting resistor value calculator


• LM317 voltage regulator resistor values calculator


• Op-amp noise calculator


• Phono cartridge loading resistance and capacitance


• Resistor color bands


• Various speaker design related calculators


• Stepped attenuator resistor values
  
• Wire inductance calculator
  
• Wire resistance calculator
  

Vendors

• Allied Electronics electronic parts and equipment


• Angela Instruments audio electronics specialty parts


• Avel-Lindberg toroidal transformers and power converters


• Borbely Audio Erno Borbely's audio kits and components


• B&D Enterprises many hard-to-find Japanese semiconductors


• CadSoft Eagle Lite Freeware version of the Eagle schematic/pcb CAD software


• Cimarron Technology Browndog IC adapters


• Circuit Specialists and Web-tronics.com electronic parts and equipment


• Conrad Heatsinks heatsinks


• diyclub.biz audio kits and parts vendor in Hong Kong


• Digi-key electronic parts and equipment


• Elliot Sound Products Audio kits and resources


• ERSE Audio DIY speaker and audio parts


• Express PCB printed circuit board fabrication and CAD software


• Farnell electronic parts and equipment


• Front Panel Express custom enclosure front panels and CAD software


• Hammond Manufacturing racks, enclosures, transformers, outlet strips


• Handmade "boutique-grade" and other audio parts


• Imagineering (PCBnet) printed circuit board fabrication


• Lansing Enclosures enclosure/chassis vendor


• MCM Electronics audio/video/electronic components, speaker drivers and parts


• Madisound Speaker Components speaker drivers, parts and other speaker-building materials


• Mouser electronic parts and equipment


• Newark Electronics electronic parts and equipment


• Par Metal enclosure/chassis vendor


• Parts Connexion audio parts and accessories


• Parts Express audio/video components, pro-sound, speaker drivers and parts


• Percy Audio "boutique-grade" audio parts


• Plitron toroidal transformers


• RS Components electronic parts and equipment


• Realaudio audio parts vebdor in Taiwan


• Speaker City speaker drivers and parts


• SumR (Richard Sumner Technology) toroidal transformers


• THL Audio audio parts vendor in Taiwan


• Welborne Labs audio kits and parts


• Zalytron speaker drivers and parts