Jetbuilt Now Adds Instant System Schematics to Audio and Video Projects

Jetbuilt has launched Jetbot Drawings, an AI-powered tool that automatically generates complete AV system schematics within seconds, transforming hours of engineering work into instant, accurate outputs. Integrated into the Jetbuilt project sales and management software platform, this new feature leverages project data and AI training to create editable, exportable schematics, greatly boosting design speed and efficiency for audio and video system integrators.

A fresh, analog-friendly electronics project, this article proposes one of many DIY examples from the author’s Audio Circuits Cookbook. An excellent way to dive into the art of guitar effects and tone shaping, benefiting from the experience of someone who's been doing this since the 1960s, this article shows how to rewire a typical guitar using a Fender Telecaster as the example, and how to build small high-gain circuits like a fuzz-tone or a compressor, to great effect.

audioXpress traveled to Germany to learn about the Pure Acourate Sound Project, which aims to create the lowest distortion sound in a listening room. The initiators of the Pure Acourate Sound project are Ulrich Brüggemann, Markus Grelka, and Ralf Höllmann. The partners involved in this unique system are Purifi Audio, Okto Research, GIK Acoustics, Klippel, Roon, AudioVero, Rose Handwerk, and Joachim Gerhard. Ahead of the presentation at the May 2024 Munich High-End show, audioXpress offers a preview of the project.

The Hypex Nilai500DIY 500W Mono Power Amplifier Kit is new DIY benchmark from the company's dedicated DIYClassD brand. The kit is specified to deliver 500W with 1% THD at 4 ohms, improves output noise and idle losses significantly, and comes with a discrete buffer stage and voltage regulators. The article, originally published in July 2023, offers an extensive review with measurements of the full kit, including the PS500 DIY power supply and DIYClassD preamplifier kit.

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This article by Doug Ford describes a design for a (relatively) simple passive-matrix surround-sound decoder and the interesting things discovered by the author during the process. The decoder features an analog time delay, implemented with several cascaded all-pass networks and it improves sound system quality by eliminating out-of-phase information.

A design based on superior op-amps used in audio applications. A high-quality amplifier must drive high-quality headphones. This article describes the design and construction of a high-quality, high-power headphone amplifier.