CFA Topology Audio Amplifiers

From the the idea of Belaji, what do you think of this, with only 8 tranies, a simple symetrical Jfet input and no miller or such:
 

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Can you easily scale it up in power and keep performance? ...say 200-250W/8 level?

What results do you get when you replace R9 and R10 with one resistor and connect that one resistor to the junction of R1 and R2 -- with the ground at that junction removed and replaced by resistor to ground? can you SIM and compare?

-RNM
 
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Hi, Richard,
More voltage, I believe yes, those series of Jfets are high voltage (up to 200V). The ones used are 50V.
Same perf ? We will see 🙂
What results do you get when you replace R9 and R10 with one resistor and connect that one resistor to the junction of R1 and R2 -- with the ground at that junction removed and replaced by resistor to ground? can you SIM and compare?
You can imagine it was my first schematic ;-) No good.
(i am not such a VSSA sectarian, i would prefer one path than 2 ;-)
It looks quite promising, hey ? Fast and Healthy in sim. Amazed by the HF behavior, so clean.
 
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According to my notions amplifier must be done without general negative feedback. The voltage amplifier (VAS - driver) can be performed by any scheme with any form of NFB current or voltage, or without NFB. In the amplifier without a common NFB it is a little irrelevant. The output stage has to have a negative impedance. Only in this case, you can get the most realistic sound. [FONT=Arial, sans-serif]http://www.rowen.ch/en/poweramp.php[/FONT]

best regards
Petr
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Hello, banat!
125 W at a supply voltage of + -55 ​​V, and 8 ohms
at 4 ohms and voltage + -40 volts (if not stable, then the load will drop to + -35 V), the output voltage will be active for at least 20 volts R.M.S.
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regards
Petr
 
Well, at least, one thing is interesting in my ridiculous mistake -i'm still laughing- it is the good phase behavior of Jfets inputs compared to BJT (noticed several times) with one added pole to the 3 basic stages.
Probably something to dig if some of you can deal with distortion. ( I'm not as experienced with Jfets than SIR John Curl. ;-)
What do you think about performance of this CFB Amp ?
Will try to sim-it. But, as you have seen, i'm not the best at this ;-)
 
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Got any performance results?

Preferably 'real life' but SPICE will do to compare with our old fogey 'dreams'. Complete circuit please so we can have a play too.

I posted the sim result of N2 here: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/soli...ts-your-opinions-post3393033.html#post3393033
with this picture: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/atta...-douglas-self-wants-your-opinions-gate-cc.png

Like I just said before to not too much dream, nothing is perfect in this earth. Here is latest N2 shot, it looks awful I don't think anyone interested after seeing 🙄, the sound is good but not perfect (I am happy with this and not dreaming any perfect one😀).
My apologies.. also for full schematic isn't public, but I may share what is public and usable.
 

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