[Eeyore]

Arny Krueger wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote in
Arny Krueger wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote

My intention is to entirely eliminate this with a kind
of 'hybrid' output stage.

How? Other than class-A you'd need to come up with some
kind of Gm-halving circuit.

It is a 'form' of Class A that indeed meets the classic
definition but without the very high idle current. It
involves quite a radical rethink of the output stage.

In the past the usual approach to this has been to use a bias circuit that
keeps the output devices from ever turning fully off.

It's that kind of thing.

What do you know about previous examples of this. I've just generally heard
that they hadn't been brilliantly succesful.

Graham