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Article #6535Re: class D amps
From: Mark Johnson
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:32
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:32
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In article <1992Aug17.170921.1628@imax.imax.com> dave@imax.imax.com (Dave Martindale) writes: >Circuitry to convert 16-bit data at 44.1 kHz to digital data at about >1.5 MHz is readily available - that's exactly how the "1-bit" DACs >work. Whether you could build a class-D power amp that would amplify >this signal without radiating RF all over the place is another question, >but if you could, it would eliminate analog stages entirely. And it >would be efficient. And you would have a set of large-amplitude rectangular pulses, which would need to be bandlimited (dare I say, filtered) before presenting them to the loudspeaker voicecoils. The output impedance of this contrivance needs to be quite low or else the damping factor will suffer.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!mips!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcom!mjohnson From: mjohnson@netcom.Netcom.COM (Mark Johnson) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: class D amps Message-ID: <MJOHNSON.92Aug17123218@netcom.Netcom.COM> Date: 17 Aug 92 20:32:18 GMT References: <1992Aug15.220915@aifh.ed.ac.uk> <1992Aug17.170921.1628@imax.imax.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Service Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: dave@imax.imax.com's message of 17 Aug 92 17:09:21 GMT