In a world of tight timelines and ever-increasing performance requirements, it’s critical to create circuit designs right the first time; thus, engineers in the analog and mixed-signal industry often ...

Q: What are slew and dampening factor? I saw it asked in one of your forums and its not in your glossary. A: Slew Rate: This is a term used to describe how quickly the output of an amplifier can track ...

Depends on the amp's slew rate too. If the amp is feeding a high impedance then it is pushing more volts and less amps for the same wattage. If the amp cannot slew fast enough, it'll distort. This ...

Few subjects in the world of audio systems excite so much controversy and heated debate as the subject of loudspeaker cables. A truly enormous amount of pseudo-science has been written about this ...

The switching amplifier, or class D amplifier, has risen quickly to prominence in consumer audio applications, from MP3 devices including mobile phone handsets to games consoles, LCD-TVs, and home ...

What are the risks when driving a 4 or 6 ohm speaker with a amplifier that is rated from 8-16ohm. The amplifier is an old Pioneer VSX-808, it´s my "PC speakers" and I´m using 4 ohm speakers as front ...

Two of the most often used amplifier building blocks in audio amplifier design are the common emitter amplifier with emitter degeneration and the emitter follower using the same circuit biasing. The ...

When shopping for loudspeakers or headphones, most consumers don’t even look at the impedance of the products they are considering. Do they need to? What is Impedance? Glad you asked. Most consumers ...