In Reply to: RE: absolutely posted by Satie on July 28, 2014 at 15:32:03:
Dave's question was rhetorical, but I answered it anyway. I'd take his point even further and say that, at the outset, not only was reducing distortion not 'the main' purpose, but it wasn't even 'a' purpose. However, once the benefit was demonstrated, it became a design option. Even the 'little' X150 has 40 MOSFETs in the output stage - the X350 (or X600) only adds 8 more.Your question is too open ended to answer.
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My only reason for starting this sub-discussion is that I disagree with the statement that the lower powered members of a series sound better as a result of having fewer devices in the output stage. If done properly, more devices in parallel should always result in a measurable improvement. Whether or not such an improvement is audible is another matter. Is a reduction of an inaudible distortion somehow more inaudible? ;-)
Edits: 07/28/14
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- unanswerable as posed - wazoo 18:59:00 07/28/14 (15)
- RE: unanswerable as posed - Satie 19:53:12 07/28/14 (14)
- not only unanswerable, but irrelevant - wazoo 06:28:21 07/29/14 (11)
- RE: not only unanswerable, but irrelevant - pictureguy 18:55:31 07/30/14 (10)
- Pass does use IR HexFETs - wazoo 21:37:16 07/30/14 (9)
- RE: Pass does use IR HexFETs - pictureguy 21:48:54 07/30/14 (8)
- RE: Pass does use IR HexFETs - Davey 22:11:39 07/30/14 (7)
- RE: Pass does use IR HexFETs - Satie 15:28:28 08/01/14 (3)
- RE: Pass does use IR HexFETs - Davey 09:27:01 08/02/14 (2)
- RE: Pass does use IR HexFETs - drugolf 06:37:34 08/04/14 (0)
- RE: Pass does use IR HexFETs - Satie 13:44:47 08/02/14 (0)
- RE: Pass does use IR HexFETs - pictureguy 10:02:52 07/31/14 (1)
- RE: Pass does use IR HexFETs - Davey 10:53:31 07/31/14 (0)
- RE: Pass does use IR HexFETs - pictureguy 23:38:34 07/30/14 (0)
- RE: unanswerable as posed - JBen 20:41:45 07/28/14 (1)
- RE: unanswerable as posed - pictureguy 21:11:55 07/28/14 (0)