In Reply to: Aries Cerat...SE OTL from Cyrus!! posted by morricab on February 12, 2015 at 04:24:43:
I was interested to read the following as regards their SE OTL:
"All tube OTL amplifiers use SEPP, cyclotron or Mr. Futterman’s variations. All these are push-pull amplification stages. They can claim single ended, but they are push pull topologies. Feedback is mandatory in this designs to cancel out the artifacts generated by the problems of not true complimentary driving of the signal, and of course cross-over distortion. Some clever variations have been presented on the market during recent years, but they are nevertheless push pull topologies with many dbs of negative feedback, some of them use up to 60db of degenerative feedback. Of course, these amplifiers are not Class A devices."
Contrary to what is written:
(1) Feedback is not "mandatory" in a circlotron
(2) Crossover distortion due to phase splitting is not an issue if the amplifier topology is fully balanced from front to back.
(3) A fully balanced circlotron amplifier can operate in Class A for at least the first several Watts of output power, at least as much Class A power as they get from their SE OTL.
I'm just sayin'.
Rather sick of hype.
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Follow Ups
- Thanks for the heads-up - Lew 07:55:14 02/12/15 (26)
- RE: Thanks for the heads-up - cpotl 16:11:12 02/12/15 (25)
- Touche', sort of... - Lew 07:15:53 02/13/15 (24)
- RE: Touche', sort of... - morricab 12:29:39 02/14/15 (11)
- RE: Touche', sort of... - Lew 20:55:03 02/16/15 (10)
- RE: Touche', sort of... - morricab 01:50:00 02/19/15 (9)
- "Until you compare them to equally good no feedback circuits I can imagine you don't hear the consequences.." - Lew 08:07:14 02/23/15 (8)
- RE: "Until you compare them to equally good no feedback circuits I can imagine you don't hear the consequences.." - morricab 11:59:26 02/23/15 (1)
- MOSFET - Lew 14:39:35 02/23/15 (0)
- RE: "Until you compare them to equally good no feedback circuits I can imagine you don't hear the consequences.." - Banat 11:17:30 02/23/15 (5)
- Triode outputs on a Futterman... - Lew 14:45:18 02/23/15 (4)
- RE: Triode outputs on a Futterman... - Banat 15:43:32 02/23/15 (3)
- RE: Triode outputs on a Futterman... - Lew 10:29:52 02/24/15 (2)
- RE: Triode outputs on a Futterman... - Ralph 08:50:47 02/25/15 (0)
- RE: Triode outputs on a Futterman... - Banat 15:54:52 02/24/15 (0)
- RE: Touche', sort of... - cpotl 08:15:26 02/13/15 (11)
- Re the 6C33C... - Lew 09:44:35 02/14/15 (3)
- RE: Re the 6C33C... - cpotl 10:31:56 02/14/15 (2)
- Like Ralph said,.. - Lew 10:52:38 02/14/15 (1)
- Grid saturation - Ralph 08:17:00 02/16/15 (0)
- RE: Touche', sort of... - Ralph 14:18:40 02/13/15 (6)
- RE: Touche', sort of... - cpotl 16:08:45 02/14/15 (3)
- RE: Touche', sort of... - Ralph 08:02:54 02/16/15 (2)
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- RE: Touche', sort of... - Ralph 09:32:25 02/16/15 (0)
- RE: Touche', sort of... - cpotl 15:18:19 02/13/15 (1)
- RE: Touche', sort of... - Ralph 08:11:25 02/16/15 (0)