Hi guys, can you recommend any basic audio engineering, speaker building – crossover building channels on YouTube? Or maybe a audio engineering basic class to take online?
I would like to learn the very basics of HIFI audio overall. But not get bogged down in doing calculus for hours. ( Im not very good at math anyway. )
I would like to learn the very basics of HIFI audio overall. But not get bogged down in doing calculus for hours. ( Im not very good at math anyway. )
You will quickly find that audio ends up in maths.
You have also stated coverage end to end - across electronics, analogue design, digital design, and acoustic design. Each being a deep rabbit hole with their own mathematics.
You have also stated coverage end to end - across electronics, analogue design, digital design, and acoustic design. Each being a deep rabbit hole with their own mathematics.
Not trying to be flippant, just i tried to avoid maths but as soon as you want to work out the right values for a cap or a resistor beyond simply V=IR there concepts that start in maths.
Probably the first step is understanding V=IR etc then challenge yourself to design an amp from scratch. Work back from the speakers.. it’s taken me a good couple of years learning to be able to pull together an amp, yet there is still a lot more in years of experience required to make something that sounds good.
Probably the first step is understanding V=IR etc then challenge yourself to design an amp from scratch. Work back from the speakers.. it’s taken me a good couple of years learning to be able to pull together an amp, yet there is still a lot more in years of experience required to make something that sounds good.
Random audio tips on YT videos?
Or any videos?
Maaaybeee you will find a few useful bite here and there, smashed over (as in a Tsunami) by Tons of doubtful/wrong/biased opinion, disguised as fact.
Get a book and read it.
Information is there, cover to cover, in a logical order, you read it t your own pace, go back and recheck any doubts, you can cheat and peek at later chapters to get a feeling of where this is leading, the works.
Try THAT with any Video (supposing you find a good one first).
And to fully display any book contents, they would need, say, 40 hours or more.
here´s a few:
https://www.routledge.com/Practical-Audio-Electronics/Robinson/p/book/9780367359850
The Audio Cyclopedia - Howard Tremaine
It's old and expensive, but great, the best edition is the 1974 printing. May be old but most is still relevant and it has the most pages (1700+).
https://www.elsevier.com/books/audio-electronics/linsley-hood/978-0-7506-2181-6
https://www.futurlec.com/BooksAudio.shtml
Or any videos?
Maaaybeee you will find a few useful bite here and there, smashed over (as in a Tsunami) by Tons of doubtful/wrong/biased opinion, disguised as fact.
Get a book and read it.
Information is there, cover to cover, in a logical order, you read it t your own pace, go back and recheck any doubts, you can cheat and peek at later chapters to get a feeling of where this is leading, the works.
Try THAT with any Video (supposing you find a good one first).
And to fully display any book contents, they would need, say, 40 hours or more.
here´s a few:
https://www.routledge.com/Practical-Audio-Electronics/Robinson/p/book/9780367359850
The Audio Cyclopedia - Howard Tremaine
It's old and expensive, but great, the best edition is the 1974 printing. May be old but most is still relevant and it has the most pages (1700+).
https://www.elsevier.com/books/audio-electronics/linsley-hood/978-0-7506-2181-6
https://www.futurlec.com/BooksAudio.shtml
Since nobody seems to actually answer your question...
Mr. Carlson's Lab is great if you need some basics. He also offers an ongoing class (paid, but very reasonable) on Patreon with more in-depth videos.
Although primarily tube based, Uncle Doug has a lot of content.
XRayTonyB also does a wide variety of stuff. Really great for just putting on a video and absorbing things, more like an apprenticeship than a classroom course.
None of them are crossover or speaker-focused, but if you're looking for the basics of audio and electronics, you can't really go wrong with those three.
Mr. Carlson's Lab is great if you need some basics. He also offers an ongoing class (paid, but very reasonable) on Patreon with more in-depth videos.
Although primarily tube based, Uncle Doug has a lot of content.
XRayTonyB also does a wide variety of stuff. Really great for just putting on a video and absorbing things, more like an apprenticeship than a classroom course.
None of them are crossover or speaker-focused, but if you're looking for the basics of audio and electronics, you can't really go wrong with those three.
For troubleshooting: 12voltvids.
If you are curious about more tubes; Glasslinger - an amazing person with mad skills! Done from scratch!
+1 on Xraytonyb. Very good channel!
If you are curious about more tubes; Glasslinger - an amazing person with mad skills! Done from scratch!
+1 on Xraytonyb. Very good channel!
Sorry I was on my mobile phone only for the last two weeks - now back to a proper keyboard and screen.
I learnt alot from Carlson and Dave over at EEVBlog:
If you want to geek out the Marco at Signal Path is great but that's some serious geekage fixing components: https://www.youtube.com/c/Thesignalpath but be prepared to watch him run through some high high end kit 🙂 He also has some tutorials:
As a self confessed geek - Jeri really starts in the physical 'shove it on the bench to see' approach:
There's also a lady that explains and walks through the maths for BJT transistors etc really well but I can't find it.
NickKUK,
Sorry for this slightly off topic plug, but a very nice application of the Wien Bridge oscillator Jeri discussed is the $79 Akitika 1khz oscillator unit that I have and use on the bench from time to time. It would be an excellent first kit and great for sleuthing problems in temperamental circuits 😉 In the design manual, section 8, he discusses the theory dating back to the origins of HP.
Best,
Anand.
Sorry for this slightly off topic plug, but a very nice application of the Wien Bridge oscillator Jeri discussed is the $79 Akitika 1khz oscillator unit that I have and use on the bench from time to time. It would be an excellent first kit and great for sleuthing problems in temperamental circuits 😉 In the design manual, section 8, he discusses the theory dating back to the origins of HP.
Best,
Anand.
Aaron Lanterman's channel Lantertronics is well worth viewing. He a Georgia Tech professor of Engineering and goes through a whole course on designing and analyzing musical instrument related electronics.