Unusual amp from 1987

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I think PCB will be fine. I made 3 PCBs for 4 amps - it's a similar topology.
And my PCBs are not perfect. They don't have ground plane like yours.
And they all worked just fine. No hum, no un-explainable oscillations.
As long as ground(s) is routed correctly, power and signal ground separately, they will work ok...
 
Very nice board. But if I was a transistor, I wouldn't care if layout or tracks are symmetrical or not 🙂
This is purely for esthetic reasons
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Очень красивая печатная плата. Но если бы я был транзистором, мне было бы все равно, симметричны ли компоновка или дорожки 🙂 Это чисто из эстетических соображений
 
I quickly put together 2 op-amps + Hawksford cascode VAS.
I guess the overall results are similar to the latest/best non-symmetrical schematic, but SR is at least 100V/us.
Plots for 1kHz and 10kHz (at full power). Very nice square waves too. Very stable and tolerant.
 

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This is very simple schematic.
I bet you can slap your voltage shifter/buffer, a coil or two and make it much better 🙂
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Это очень простая схема. Бьюсь об заклад, вы можете использовать свой переключатель напряжения / буфер, катушку или две и сделать это намного лучше 🙂
 
Yeah, your last non-symmetrical was flatter (Thd at 1kHz), at or below 150dB.
That's because more complex voltage shifter (4 transistors).
Here there is only 1.
Tomorrow will try to combine both of them. But it seems little bit over complicated...
Transistor count is growing...
 
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But from what I see, Hawksford cascode VAS improves everything,
so it's worth using, regardless of the input and middle stage implementation.
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Но из того, что я вижу, каскадный VAS Хоксфорда все улучшает, так что его стоит использовать, независимо от реализации ввода и среднего этапа.