[Gareth Magennis]

"Phil Allison" wrote in message
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"Gareth Magennis"
"Phil Allison"

Well this is probably an urban myth/load of ********, but years ago
lots of people were talking about power Mosfets exhibiting different
distortion characteristics than BJT's in the same way thermionic valves
distort with differening harmonics and sound nicer.

Fact or crapology?


** Audiophool crapology - repeated parrot fashion, ad nauseam.

The THD residual of even the simplest topology, lateral mosfet audio
amplifiers is vanishingly small.

Sub the threshold of audibility.


Not if you clip them like you might a valve amp for example.


** Only ****ing half-wits listen to clipped audio from a home hi-fi.


Would a Mosfet amp clip more "nicely" than a BJT amp?


** No.

Any more ****wit MOSFET myths you want to give an airing here ?

Imbecile.



..... Phil





Er, perhaps. Mosfets don't have the same thermal characteristics as BJT's,
which are more prone to thermal runaway. So perhaps when you are runing
Mosfets hard, there is some kind of compression thing going on which sounds
nicer than a BJT amp exploding after clipping a lot.




Gareth.