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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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Distortion in power amplifiers, Part IV: the power amplifier stages

The almost universal choice in semiconductor power amplifiers is for a unity gain output stage, and specifically a voltage follower. Output stages with gain are not unknown,1 but they are not common. Most designers feel that controlling distortion while handling large currents is hard enough without trying to generate gain at the same time.

The first three parts of this series have dealt with one kind of distortion at a time, due to the monotonic transfer characteristics of small signal stages, which usually, but not invariably, work in class A.2 Economic and thermal realities mean that most output stages are class B, and so we must now consider crossover distortion, which remains ...

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