Current Source Amplifiers and Sensitive / Full …

1 Current Source Amplifiers and Sensitive / full -Range Driversby Nelson Pass IntroductionConventional wisdom holds that a pure voltage Source amplifier is ideal for audioapplications, and generally designers of loudspeakers work to that assumption. This beliefhas particularly been dominant since the development of high power solid-state amplifiersthat began in the 1960 s. A small minority of audiophiles thinks otherwise, and these areoften people using low wattage tube Amplifiers with unusual looking speakers. Well, ofcourse entertainment is full of fringe couple of years ago, Kent English and I were playing around with various ribbon tweeters,noting how the ribbons themselves seemed perfectly happy being driven by a Current sourceand without their usual matching transformer. We built an audio Current Source that delivered1 amp of AC Current per input volt to a maximum of 10 amps.

1 Current Source Amplifiers and Sensitive / Full-Range Drivers by Nelson Pass Introduction Conventional wisdom holds that a pure voltage source …

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