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- From: henry@monod.biol.mcgill.ca (Henry A. Pasternack)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Mr. Pierce responds to Re: Class C amplifiers, says Mr. Pierce.
- Message-ID: <41520@unix.SRI.COM>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 14:00:57 GMT
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- Reply-To: henry@monod.biol.mcgill.ca (Henry A. Pasternack)
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- Dick Pierce writes:
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- >No, no audio amplifier may have been designed as Class C, but if it's
- >SUPPOSED to be Class B, I'll bet you it runs Class C much of the time.
- >
- >The early Phase Linear amps were designed as Class B... Most that I saw
- >ran sloppy enough that the suffered from horrible crossover discontinuity
- >that is the hallmark of marginal Class C operation. This lead to their
- >simultaneously poor sound and poor measurements at low power.
-
- I think a lot of eyebrows went up when Dick referred to Class
- C audio amplifiers. I know mine did. Technically, an amp that
- wanders into an underbiased condition as Dick describes can be
- categorized as Class C. But I would tend to refer instead to such
- an amplifier as a badly-designed Class B circuit. Evidently, this
- was Dick's intent from the start.
-
- The term "Class C" always suggests to me a circuit in which the
- device conduction angle is significantly less than 180 degrees. I
- automatically think of CW transmitters when I hear the term. Such
- an amplifier is wholly unsuited to linear operation, whether at
- audio frequencies, or at RF, as in an AM transmitter output stage.
-
- -Henry
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