Check out Robert Harleys' "Complete Guide To High-End Audio" It should shed some light on this and many other matters. Good Luck.
Electronic Circuitry For Dummies
I've been through all 686 thread titles in tech Talk and can't find anything on circuits. Can anyone recommend a book or books that explains what resistors, capacitors, etc do and how electricity becomes an audio signal? I just want to understand how my amplifier works and maybe get a handle on things like what biasing tubes does to the signal.