Sony SITs - 2SK82 E Rank With 2SJ28 F Rank

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A little afraid throwing this circuit into the ring to all you geniuses. Based on some Borbely front-end I once built. It has nearly 2 A of bias current. I have not tried to tweak it in Lt Spice, and most importantly, I have not built it. Thanks to M. Rothacher for 2SK82 model. (And 2SJ28, alternatively, I "inverted" the 82. I can not remember...)
 

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Because of the high cost of these devices perhaps a cascode output stage might be worth looking at. Similar to this from Nelson's classic article. Using 2 banks of mosfets to provide the cascode shelving for the sits. Where the sits take the place of the darlington pairs of bipolars.
 

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Well, my idea was basically to do the following:
  1. Use only JFET or VFET/SIT, not MOSFET or bipolar
  2. Complementary throughout
  3. Use a VFET/SIT follower output stage capable of handling my full range speakers (Quad ESL-63)
Of course one can discuss if this really is necessary, e.g. could the second stage be MOSFETs without any sonic degradation? But the concept is all-JFET...
Furthermore, I have not cascoded the input JFETs, but I expect I have to do something here. Because the VFETs have to be driven from something on higher voltage rails. And I am looking towards 2 x 60 W into 8 Ohms or in that vicinity.
I am also thinking along the line regulated power supplies, with pass 😎 transistors...
I cannot say cost is no object, but I strongly believe the bulk of the cost is power supplies, heat sinks and the enclosure. So there you have the background.
But thank you for the proposal of course!
 
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