Another language barrier for me. Is this mean you will do it or you will not do it?
If it is positive answer (will do it), please include me in the list, Mr. Pass
. I will pay for the DVD and shipment.Hi, Jacco,
Yes, bunch of Nelson Pass articles which can be downloaded from internet has already forming a book
But I'm expecting to see cct's/articles that NP has never made public yet. I'm sure there are alot of it
I see those cct's/articles quite different than handbooks like DougSelf or RandySlone. Books like Dougself is a guidance for making audio amplifier. Mr. Pass' schematics is a guidance for making "good sounding" audio amplifier. Even it is in a form of a schematic without any word at all.
What can you say. A picture (cct) equals thousands of words.
Once I read that some of people sending NP better caps or accesories, and he wrote that he would appreciate more if someone is sending more linear device.
At the time I read that post, I dont take it seriously, at that time I take a transistor as it is, a perfect device.
Now somehow my search for ideal amp is stuck with transistor nonlinearities.
I read about the background of F series amp. Why make 300W power amp if 299W is not good?
So, why make 10 or 20 transistor power amp if each is producing more nonlinearities/IM?
But for now, I haven't reach the Zen era. I'm still enjoying the Threshold/Smartbias/Efficient classA era. Still a lot more interesting stuff this era.
dqswim said:
"Today, dog days occur during the period between July 3 and August 11."
"In the summer, however, Sirius, the “dog star,” rises and sets with the sun. During late July Sirius is in conjunction with the sun, and the ancients believed that its heat added to the heat of the sun, creating a stretch of hot and sultry weather. They named this period of time, from 20 days before the conjunction to 20 days after, “dog days” after the dog star."
Silly me, I thought it meant the hot, humid, windless days near the end of summer.
Cal
This is the traditional origin anecdote for [true] ribbon speakers. It's been so many decades that I can't remember which Chicago-area lab it was supposed to have happened at when I first heard it, or just which piece of HE physics gear was reputed to have provided the physically large gap with intense, linear magnetic field. I imagine those details change from telling to telling.
Ten to one it's apocryphal...but I do know some HE physics sorts who are pretty deeply into good sound reproduction, so I won't say it's impossible. Hmmm. I wonder if Dan is still working at Fermi...
When I was at ESS I experimented with an actual tweeter
which operated on a similar principle. A circular lightweight
foil diaphragm is placed between two coils, one front and one
back, all aligned to the same plane. When you run current
through the coils and modulate it, the eddy currents in the
diaphragm cause it to push air. The concept came from an
old acoustics journal, and I simply implemented the original
drawings. I also tried iron oxide coated mylar sheet as a
diaphragm.
As a loudspeaker, it was not a practical item.
which operated on a similar principle. A circular lightweight
foil diaphragm is placed between two coils, one front and one
back, all aligned to the same plane. When you run current
through the coils and modulate it, the eddy currents in the
diaphragm cause it to push air. The concept came from an
old acoustics journal, and I simply implemented the original
drawings. I also tried iron oxide coated mylar sheet as a
diaphragm.
As a loudspeaker, it was not a practical item.
The eddy current driver sounds as though it would be inefficient. On the other hand, it might be just the ticket for a CCS amp.
Assuming that iron oxide coated mylar means magnetic recording tape, I have experimented with this with fair results. It's inefficient. Conceptually, I think it's likely that the iron oxide will experience a hysteresis effect, which would surely lead to distortion, but I don't remember it being audible.
Grey
Assuming that iron oxide coated mylar means magnetic recording tape, I have experimented with this with fair results. It's inefficient. Conceptually, I think it's likely that the iron oxide will experience a hysteresis effect, which would surely lead to distortion, but I don't remember it being audible.
Grey
