what is R and C in series to ground?

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In an application note of a chip im using it has a 1 nF cap in series with a 20ohm resistor on between the speaker wires and ground.

What is this? an RC low pass wouldn't need the resitor in series to ground. :S

It is a snubber circuit. From National application note:

DETERMINING SNUBBER CIRCUIT COMPONENT VALUES
The Snubber circuit is composed of RSN and CSN. The common
value of 0.1μF is chosen for CSN and then a starting value
of 10Ω is used for RSN. The pole location created by the circuit
is found using Equation 4 below.
f-3dB = 1/(2πRSNCSN) (Hz) If small, high frequency oscillation is observed on the output then the snubber values need to be adjusted. Leave the value
of RSN set to 10Ω and increase the value of CSN until the oscillation
ceases.

Tom
 
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