1. Is Amplifier Weight an Indicator of Robust Amplifier Design? You have to find out if the amplifier is a Class A/B analog amp or a Class D digital amplifier before you can generalize about weight ...

Just today I read on an internet forum a post by a "hot" new manufacturer of class D amplifiers saying that "the only way to solve the interference problem is to put the amplifier in a completely ...

This article originally appeared in Linear Audio, a book-format audio magazine published half-yearly by Jan Didden. I hate articles titled “Ten … myths debunked.” I would have to start by listing a ...

Class D audio amplifiers have been increasingly famous in the recent years. This article will present the what’s, why’s and how’s of Class-D audio amplifiers. The article will also present audio ...

Linear audio amplifiers can provide excellent sound fidelity, but they consume a great deal of power and present significant thermal management challenges, especially in automotive audio systems.

As we’ve traced our no-nonsense path through the world of Hi-Fi audio, we’ve started with the listener, understood the limitations of the human ear, and thence proceeded to the loudspeaker. We’ve ...

I suspect a substantial number of people have an old pair of speakers sitting in storage: hand-me-downs from a family member, perhaps, or the remnants of a stereo of their youth. Such speakers can be ...

If you know anything about a transistor, it’s probably that it’s a three terminal device whose output pin forms part of a potential divider whose state is dependent on what is presented to its input ...

Gallium-nitride (GaN) FETs offer several advantages over their silicon counterparts, from power density, to switching efficiency, to noise reduction, to design. By Ilian Bonov, GaN International ...

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