I do not think that Nelson pursues ultimate low distortion. IT seeems he pursues low distortion with minimal circuitry.
Antoinel asked whether I participate here. Maybe yes, maybe no. I do visit from time to time to stay abreast of goings-on but I rarely post. That's because I'm passive, not active (not a DIYer who builds anything, just a reporter on other people's work which kinda defeats the whole focus of this site). But anyone is always welcome to contact me thru my site if they have specific questions about my reviews. I try to answer every email I get. Unless it gives away millions, solicits sex or pharmaceuticals or wants me to invest in some time share in Barbados -
winding ratio isn't so important as interplay within two xformers
as connected in Buzzz's funny , it's connected to have it
dunno , I'm lost in all these variations - who drew what , what I drew to whom ..
That makes hope...!
Continue drawing, despite your lostness, the Ultimate is waiting for those lost!
I fully agree. The electronics world will not be the same with perfect transistors which are distortionless.
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or wants me to invest in some time share in Barbados -
Welcome in the better Barbados again!
And thanks for the impressions of original First Watt Amps, we mostly cannot hear!
Get yourself a pair of 2N5460/2N5457 -- match 'em up -- the pin orientation is different from the K170/J74 and transconductance lower -- but you can get THD under 0.01% and the noise isn't noticeably different as the gain in the first stage is only 20dB.
While the 2N5457 may be difficult to find at times, it is easily substituted, and the SMT version is in production.
Antoinel asked whether I participate here. Maybe yes, maybe no. I do visit from time to time to stay abreast of goings-on but I rarely post. That's because I'm passive, not active (not a DIYer who builds anything, just a reporter on other people's work which kinda defeats the whole focus of this site). But anyone is always welcome to contact me thru my site if they have specific questions about my reviews. I try to answer every email I get. Unless it gives away millions, solicits sex or pharmaceuticals or wants me to invest in some time share in Barbados -
Thank you for replying. Your reports are also highly valuable to audio DIYers too. The objective measurements by Mr. Pass, your reports, and the collective reporting of DIYers who built Pass diy amps paint the most accurate performance picture of the gear under study.
I could not find your report on F6 which generg talked about in an earlier post.
Best regards.
Thank you ichiban. Mr. Ebaen is gifted. His F6 report is rich in writing style, and is impressive in its analyses and comparisons. Truly remarkble. Made me think to visit his site periodically and read all sorts of interesting reports.
Said Mr. Ebaen, and my possible connections to be taken with a grain of salt:
- F6 damped the music more so than SIT. generg, his perception of relative damping may be because of the lower output impedance of F6 than that of SIT [4 Ohms].
- Surprisingly, Mr. Pass used negative feedback in F6. Without NF, the power bandwidth of the attendant current source amp is unacceptable, and the amp's output impedance is high.
- F6 sounded SIT-ish. I like to call negative feedback in F6 as Pass Feedback. It emanates from a high output impedance port and terminates at a summing junction. Schade has exploited this similar approach earlier to convert the characteristics of a pentode to those of a triode. SIT is intrinsically triode-sounding. F6 is a remarkable SIT mimick .
- The output stage of M2 is comprised of complementary MOSFETs operating in the common drain configuration; absent feedback. Thus this amp has a low intrinsic output impedance of 0.4 Ohms. Can readily implement the classic Black feedback; but not Pass. M2 is a different amp. Its topology is interesting.
M2 is a simple and potent topology. The familiar 2SK/2SJ front end and the auto transformer make an interesting preamp. Let this preamp drive a complementary pair of MOSFETs operating in a common source configuration, or an opposed drains which has relatively high output impedance. Apply Pass negative feedback from this high output impedance port to the gates of the front end [summing junction]. Now one has a modified M2 with triode-like characteristics; instead of the pentode characteristics in the parent M2.M2 is not having any significant OLG to have any significant CLG
to be precise - its all in OLG
The top of the auto transformer may also drive a SIT. The phase inverted output of the SIT is then fed back to the gates of the complementary JFETs to further lower the output impedance of SIT and decrease its distortion. The front end preamp of M2 has great potential.
M2 is not having any significant OLG to have any significant CLG
to be precise - its all in OLG
What is OLG and CLG, please?
even connected in autoformer fashion , including xformer in feedback loop can be tricky business
there lies Pa's witty - how he connected FB in F6 and xformer isn't in FB loop
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I agree, the transformer primary windings see the difference between Vin and a*Vout. How can that not be feedback?M2 does not appear to have any phase inversion to create Negative Feedback?
And, although the loop is not completely hard wired in F6, I don't see how you can say the xfrmr is not in the loop
naah
just tried (clumsy) to make distinction between cases - where F6 is having sort of diminutive voltage swings through xformer , where M2 have full voltage swing exactly through xformer
I didn't make proper analysis or sim of phase behavior , but I have feeling that position of feedback signal inclusion point in F6 is not so troublesome , as in case that FB signal inclusion point is anywhere in original signal chain going to top of primary
call me ZM Lazy Susan on Lazy Sunday ...... but no brain for more
just tried (clumsy) to make distinction between cases - where F6 is having sort of diminutive voltage swings through xformer , where M2 have full voltage swing exactly through xformer
I didn't make proper analysis or sim of phase behavior , but I have feeling that position of feedback signal inclusion point in F6 is not so troublesome , as in case that FB signal inclusion point is anywhere in original signal chain going to top of primary
call me ZM Lazy Susan on Lazy Sunday ...... but no brain for more
The two amplifiers use transformers with different core materials, with the
M2 using M6 for lower saturation at high levels. You can guess why the
Jensen is a better choice for the F6.