Babelfish XA252 / Babelfish XA252 SIT / Babelfish XA252 SET

A close look at the pictures in the 6 Moons review shows the large SOT-227B “hockey puck” style components. The part numbers are not visible.
I have used IXYS VBE60-06A rectifiers with good results in some of my recent builds. They are relatively quiet and have low voltage loss in higher power/voltage applications.
I have ordered 4 of those, checked mouser and digikey, one out one had less than 20. Mouser showed a fairly long lead time.
These will do. Can always be changed, but unless for some odd reason "sound worse" than the standard ones I generally use, and that is hardly likely. They do look cool. Pricey, but I've waited to build this for some time and all the difficult Preliminary work is done. Wiring and correcting any smoke escape is left.

Russellc
 
in general - whenever you have symmetrical circuit (be it "just" push pull OS , or really bridged), that tends to cancel even harmonics, leaving 3rd harmonic as dominant

now, how much of these (even) will left in THD Spectra, depending of constructor - that can be either matter of happenstance (so no deliberate) or deliberate

from my corner, I'm always shooting for deliberate spoiling of that symmetry, ending with dominant 2nd, hopefully* neg phase, hopefully* through entire power range

*if/as much possible

anecdote mode On - Babelfish XA252 intrinsically is 3rd dominant circuit; it took some fiddling time to make it 2nd dominant, in all 3 iterations, and as much broad power range; easily seen on all THD graph I posted

anecdote mode Off
 
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^ "If not Boeing, I'm not goeing"

I used to work at the Spring Factory... you know... boing! boing!

Airbus is weird, their cockpit design is a video game.

Good to hear about keeping 2nd order harmonic... negative 2nd order... I recall Nelson talking about that at BA23.
 
Hi,
I found a picture of the Pass XA160 and if I see it correctly, then the PSU is not a CRC, but only built with buffer capacitors.

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The XA600, on the other hand, has CRC PSU. Does anyone have an explanation? Is CRC not a "must"?
 
^ ".. reverse the speaker polarity..."

Huh? The phase of the 2nd order harmonic, positive or negative, is relative to the fundamental.

if you reverse the polarity, you are reversing both the distortion elements AND the fundamental. Huh?