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Self on Audio, 2nd Edition

by Douglas Self
June 2006
Beginner
488 pages
13h 2m
English
Newnes
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Sound mosfet design

This was the first article on power amplifiers that I wrote, though I had been designing them for manufacture since 1975. This investigation into the concept of combining power FET output devices with bipolar drivers was done some years before I undertook my major investigation into the root causes of power amplifier distortion. (See Distortion in Power Amplifiers, Parts 1–8, later in this book.) In the throes of the design process, I realised with greater force than hitherto that the distortions in the small-signal part of a power amplifier were (a) far from negligible and (b) susceptible to analysis by a mixture of SPICE simulation and a few well-chosen experiments. I also determined that SPICE could be extremely useful ...

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