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Portable Electronics: World Class Designs
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Portable Electronics: World Class Designs

by John Donovan
March 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
17h 24m
English
Newnes
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Chapter 10. Class-A Amplifiers

In the beginning there was Class A, and it was good. It was simple, linear, and had no problem with crossover distortion, switch-off phenomena, nonlinear voltage-amplifier stage (VAS) loading, injection of supply rails, induction from supply currents, erroneous feedback or Beta mismatch in the output devices. OK, so efficiency was horrendous—get a bigger heatsink!—but the sound quality was spectacular, so we learned to live with that.Class A amplifiers will always be around—and they’ll always be a challenge, particularly for battery-powered portable devices. But when your application needs the lowest possible distortion, they’re hard to avoid.In his classic Audio Power Amplifier Design Handbook Douglas Self spends ...

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ISBN: 9780080950839