Ground Loops
This set of c. 50 slides is the culmination of my experience over a period of about 25 years building numerous power amplifiers and preamplifiers. I first started out in audio about 40 years ago as a teenager. Some of…
The ‘Feedback is Bad’ Fallacy
This is one of the most depressing articles I’ve read in a long time about ‘feedback being bad’; it is filled with inaccuracies and for most part plain wrong at every level. Aimed at people who are not technically literate…
CFA vs. VFA: A Short Primer For the Uninitiated
There are many explanations about IC CFA topologies like this or this. Some plunge into math, loop gain equations and so forth, leaving the reader none the wiser, while this one (equations 1~4 and associated gain plots)…
Audio Power Amplifier Design – Peter J Baxandall
In this 6 part series of articles published from January 1978 in the now defunct Wireless World magazine, Peter Baxandall takes the reader through some of the fundamentals of audio amplifier design as they were understood at the time. …
Douglas Self’s 8 Distortions and a Few More
(pictured above is the hifisonix 180 Watt per channel e-Amp) No one had codified all the major audio amplifier distortion mechanisms until Douglas Self published the first edition of his ‘Audio Power Amplifier Design Handbook’ or APAD’ as it has…
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