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- Subject: Re: Summary: 6 ohm speakers with 8 ohm only receiver
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.135756.26294@state.systems.sa.gov.au>
- From: gcdcjrg@state.systems.sa.gov.au
- Date: 21 Jan 93 13:57:56 ACST
- References: <80086@hydra.gatech.EDU> <11900019@hpmwnpd2.sr.hp.com>
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- In article <11900019@hpmwnpd2.sr.hp.com>, allana@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Allan Armstro
- >
- >
- >
- > P. S. -- This brings up an interesting question. Consider a speaker that
- > has a very low impedance at the cabinet resonance (1 Ohm at 100 Hz, for
- > example). A solid-state amplifier would provide the speaker with
- > constant voltage. The lower impedance would mean that the amplifier
- > would supply more power at the resonance (if you're not loud enough to
- > be current-limited). Would this flatten the frequency response or make a
- > big peak? If driven by a tube amplifier with an output transformer, the
- > power match would suffer at resonance and less power would be delivered.
- > I believe this would make for muddy bass, no? Would it be better to
- > design an amplifier which monitored both output voltage and current and
- > design feedback so it delivered constant power with frequency despite
- > changes in the output load? Would it sound better?
- >
- I cant offer a practical view here but it seems that most speakers today would
- be designed and tested to have the flattest possible response with a constant
- voltage style amp so anything else (assuming it could be easily produced) would
- not produce the response expected.
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- > P. P. S. -- I may be out to lunch here. I'm just assuming that they're
- > still designing tube amps with transformer-coupled outputs. Would it be
- > practical to design an output transformerless tube amp? Since there are
- > only one-channel devices available, it might be tricky, but the real
- > problem would seem to be the very low transconductance of tubes. Is this
- > it? If you can't get enough gm, can you make it up with a lot of loop
- > gain?
- >
- Output transformerless tube amps are possible and are being made, generally
- with a pseudo complementary symatry or bridge output and a number of low
- impedance tubes in parallel for each arm.
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- > P. P. P. S -- That brings up another question. If you design a class A
- > amplifier, whether it be tubes or transistors, how do you couple the
- > output. I assume you're forced to transformer couple it. Does this mean
- > that you get a lousy damping factor or are there practical ways to add
- > enough feedback around the transformer?
-
- Class A only means having current flowing through the output device(s) all the
- time. A plain class B stage can go to pure class A by increasing the bias
- current (and power supply and heat sinks) until it is greater than the peak
- output current.
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