Circuitos Eletrônicos

While surfing the internet, as I do from time to time, I came across several articles relating to energy harvesting. For those of you who are not familiar with this topic, simply stated, it is obtaining electrical energy from situations where it is n

At the 2019 AXPONA, I took part in one of my first official meetings, as editor of Stereophile, with members of the manufacturing community: the German company T+A. They were presenting in the room of Texas dealer Lone Star Audio, which was owned by

Austria-based European Audio Team has introduced its first integrated amplifier, the intriguingly named E-Glo I, which is an all-valve, Class A design able to operate its output stage in either triode mode (rated at 18W into 4 or 8ohm) or ultralinear

A great place to escape the frigid cold and snow of Nebraska in the winter is the annual Orlando Hamcation®. This year was no exception, and with it came an opportunity to put on a group kit-building experience for the Orlando Amateur Radio Club as w

DC resistance is a common reference with respect to the imagined sound and response of a pickup. In truth, however, with a complex set of interactive variables at play, the sound of your guitar depends on far more than just ohm readings alone. “DC re

Jonathan Burnside talks with Rick Perrotta of Royer Labs about passive microphones, impedance and how the dBooster does what it does... Jonathan Burnside: There are a lot of boosters on the market. What inspired you to add yet another to the fray? Ri

Most likely, the processor in your PC has upwards of a billion transistors. Trying to get your head around the workings of such a complicated electronic circuit might, therefore, seems a daunting task. Yet helping you to understand what goes on insid

Hopefully, since our last installment, you’ve taken the opportunity to toss together and test a very simple op-amp-centered amplifier without releasing too much magic smoke. (Don’t worry if you did happen to release some magic smoke; it’s probably th

I confess. I am attracted to inexpensive workbench test gadgets, especially when a gadget proves to be useful and accurate. The operative word in the preceding sentence is “inexpensive.” I’m always looking for an innovative “good deal” in electronic

Surface-mount technology (SMT), Surface-mount devices (SMD), and microprocessors (µP) are modern construction techniques that are taken for granted in all the electronic products we use every day. They are the products of a construction evolution tha

I’ve always had an uneasy relationship with reverb. I’m crazy about plate and spring reverb effects in the studio, and always have to take care not to overdo it. But when it comes to the traditional tube-driven spring reverb in most guitar amps, I so

Column: Andy Szikla Many years ago my drummer’s parents threw a dinner party for the band, because they wanted to meet the scumbags who were leading their son into a life of sin. To ease the initial awkwardness I launched into the tragi-comic tale o

At first glance, the voltage-controlled amplifier – or VCA – seems to hold little interest, residing in its usual spot somewhere near the end of the signal path. We take it for granted – in fact, though a crucial component in any analogue synth, it’s

YOU’LL NEED THIS INTERNET BROWSER www.falstad.com/circuit LOGISIM www.church.com/logisim MOST LIKELY, the processor in your PC has upwards of a billion transistors. Trying to get your head around the workings of such a complicated electronic circuit

The Woodshed persistent demand for traditional, Fender-style bass guitars has made passive tone controls part of the musical soundscape for generations of bass players, despite trends for active EQ circuits. Passive circuits have endured, not simply

I love big amps for my distortion and drive tones, but the amount of venues I can run a 100-watt head in are diminishing on a daily basis. Before lockdown I was gigging regularly running my Friedman BE-100 at a fraction of its maximum volume – and it

1 A pair of Purifi’s Eigentakt Class D amplifier modules 2 Bays and edge-mount connectors for NAD’s optional MDC modules 3 Bluetooth/wi-fi module 4 Network, digital input and analogue (ADC) processing 5 The entire front section of the M33’s chassis i

I have been a fan of Midnight Design Solutions1 since I purchased and constructed its Scaler Network Analyzer (SNA) kit to augment the test equipment I use to build and maintain my station. That kit provided a great tool to analyze my antennas, draw

The Ultima 2 is the more powerful of two new monoblocks to be inspired by Chord’s massive flagship amplifier, all sharing proprietary technologies. ‘All our full-sized amplifiers are designed to be scaleable with many common design parts being the sa

While many high-end audio manufacturers proclaim the benefits of simple circuitry and short signal paths, T+A is happy to say of its new P 3100 HV preamplifier – based on the P 3000 HV [HFN Sep ’14] – that it has a ‘new, very complex circuit board la