On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 06:05:03 +0100, Don Pearce
wrote:
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 18:38:51 -0400, Arny Krueger wrote:
The problem with this
approach is that it created its own distortion called
gumming.
I've heard of a lot of weird stuff, but I've never heard of
gumming distortion.
Hee hee! I think he is perhaps referring to Gm doubling during the phase
when both output trannies are conducting.
Yep, and the better designers don't do this at all - they set the bias
point so that the Gm of one device has fallen off to about half the
usual value, at the crossover point.
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