Chapter 45Inclusive compensation & ultra-low distortion power amplifiers
(Linear Audio, Volume 0, Sept 2010)
Intended title: Inclusive Compensation & Ultra-Low Distortion Power Amplifiers
I wrote this article specially for the first issue of Jan Didden’s Linear Audio, which has prospered and become the primary journal for innovative audio electronic design [1].
In a standard Blameless power amplifier, all the measurable distortion comes from crossover distortion or large-signal non-linearity (LSN) in the output stage. If we want less distortion, it’s the output stage that must be improved in itself, or more negative feedback applied around it—or both. While various methods are available for making an output stage more linear, they tend to be ...
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