Current Dumping with OPAMP

Confirmation of OLG and also FFWD vs TMC with a 100TH inductance in serial with the 47R to keep the same OS Iq.
TMC net is 150 pF + 330pF + 1k, TMC THD is the green FFT, red is FFWD, dont pay attention to H2.
 

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The cut off frequency of the TMC net is a few 10s kHz to just cover the audio band, to extend it upper reduce the 1k
resistance accordingly.
Your THD numbers are apparently measured within a large BW that extend well above the audio band.
Also make sure that the Iq through the 47R is the same, the 100TH indctance is here for this all while
suppressing any FFWD.
 
The beauty of the whole case is that we don't even need a simulator to find out how the circuit works - and whether it works at all. All we need is a pencil, paper, a calculator, a few key figures, a little in-depth knowledge ---> and a few equivalent circuits later, ... we can also quickly add the famous Miller theorem ... and imagination would also be fine.

All can be done without (the need for) a simulator. Current Dumping works, no question about it!
 
As said MC compute the THD within a very large BW, compute it within 200kHz and see what happen.

The 405 enclose the OS within the whole miller loop BW while TMC, as the name suggest, enclose it only on the lower
part of the BW.

Here with the TMC net resistance at 100R, so with the TMC cut off frequency increased by 10x, same colors
as previously, red is FFWD and green TMC, also at 5.5W.
 

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THD1k TMC

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no idea what is going wrong (in nowhere),
in any case, the TMC shows instabilities at some points and spontaneous oscillations occur ... Well, this plot shows the enormous potential of this type of compensation-scheme.


But why all this when the QUAD works perfectly and exactly as the manufacturer says it should?


Both methods remain below 2m%.
 
@wahab
What did you want to prove again? I'm on the tube. Originally you wanted to prove that CD does not work and that there is no error correction in the sense of take away feedforward, but only NFB and GNFB. Correct? Further, that TMC delivers better results than CD and therefore CD would be nonsense?

🤔
Both (concepts) are possible.
 
It doesnt work the way it is supposed to do, as proved the same amp without FFWD, and without TMC of course,
has the same THD once the OS is biased at a mere 20mA, quite an achievement, the only thing that is relevant
is the very high OLG and hence NFB, wich is the real and only cause of its relatively low THD at the time.

Anyway this design is obsolete for high linearity amps, actualy from the start, with the knowledge accumulated
since 1975 we can do roughly 100x better nowadays without any output coil and still have unconditional stability
on any capacitive load.
 
Normal Operation - Current Dumper - feedforward ...

THD100 with RL=10Ohm
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THD1k with RL=10Ohm
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THD10k with RL=10Ohm
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I think that's data that is impressive. After all, Q7 always has to be switched on first depending on the level. The attenuation factor is exorbitant. So far I have only changed C4 = C3 = 470µF.