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    An audio power amplifier (or power amp) amplifies low-power electronic audio signals, such as the signal from a radio receiver or an electric guitar pickup...
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  • Audio power is the electrical power transferred from an audio amplifier to a loudspeaker, measured in watts. The electrical power delivered to the loudspeaker...
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    A class-D amplifier, or switching amplifier, is an electronic amplifier in which the amplifying devices (transistors, usually MOSFETs) operate as electronic...
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  • electronics, power amplifier classes are letter symbols applied to different power amplifier types. The class gives a broad indication of an amplifier's efficiency...
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  • A valve audio amplifier (UK) or vacuum tube audio amplifier (US) is a valve amplifier used for sound reinforcement, sound recording and reproduction....
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    A valve amplifier or tube amplifier is a type of electronic amplifier that uses vacuum tubes to increase the amplitude or power of a signal. Low to medium...
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    signal being amplified. For example, audio amplifiers amplify signals of less than 20 kHz, radio frequency (RF) amplifiers amplify frequencies in the range...
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  • commonly encountered in audio applications. Bridged or paralleled modes of working, normally involving audio power amplifiers, are methods of using two...
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  • Electrocompaniet (category Audio equipment manufacturers of Norway)
    finished product was a 25 Watt power amplifier named "The 2 Channel Audio Power Amplifier", also called "The Otala Amplifier". They continued development...
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  • The Williamson amplifier is a four-stage, push-pull, Class A triode-output valve audio power amplifier designed by D. T. N. Williamson during World War...
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    analog signal, which is then sent through an audio power amplifier and ultimately to a loudspeaker. Digital audio systems may include compression, storage...
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    containing a low-voltage audio power amplifier. It is suitable for battery-powered devices such as radios, guitar amplifiers, and hobby electronics projects...
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    Diamond buffer (category Audio amplifiers)
    use in line-level audio preamplifiers and in the output stages of audio power amplifiers. The diamond follower was a natural development of the complementary...
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  • linear operation. Linear power circuits are widespread as voltage regulators, audio amplifiers, and radio frequency amplifiers. Power semiconductors are found...
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    A headphone amplifier is a low-powered audio amplifier designed particularly to drive headphones worn on or in the ears, instead of loudspeakers in speaker...
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    Preamplifier (redirect from Pre amplifier)
    an audio system, they are typically used to amplify signals from analog sensors to line level. The second amplifier is typically a power amplifier (power...
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    tube audio power amplifier, which omits an output transformer for the purpose of greater linearity and fidelity. Conventional vacuum tube amplifier designs...
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    Its purpose is to receive audio and video signals from a number of sources, and to process them and provide power amplifiers to drive loudspeakers, and/or...
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    triode amplifier is mainly used for output stages of audio power amplifiers. The phrase directly heated triode single-ended triode amplifier (abbreviated...
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    American audio company.. The company was co-founded in 1949 by Frank H. McIntosh and Gordon Gow. McIntosh Labs designs and produces audio amplifiers, stereo...
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    always is the lowest voltage level. In analog electronics (e.g. an audio power amplifier) the ground can be a voltage level between the most positive and...
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    ICEpower (category Audio amplifier manufacturers)
    specialising in Class-D amplifiers for audio applications. In 1994 Karsten Nielsen began to write a Ph.D. dissertation "Audio Power Amplifiers Techniques Based...
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    sui generis approach to audio design, ignoring specifications and power ratings as indicators of the quality of an amplifier. Naim's approach includes...
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    Powered speakers, also known as self-powered speakers and active speakers, are loudspeakers that have built-in amplifiers. Powered speakers are used in...
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    characterized the device. Audio power amplifier LDMOS Power electronics Power semiconductor device Power MOSFET RF power amplifier Thomas L. Floyd (2011)...
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    Tube sound (category Audio amplifiers)
    sound associated with a vacuum tube amplifier (valve amplifier in British English), a vacuum tube-based audio amplifier. At first, the concept of tube sound...
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  • monoblock LNB Monoblock PC, a computer workstation A mono (one channel) audio power amplifier In photography, another name for a monolight, a type of electronic...
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    genres like blues, rock, and metal. When an amplifier is pushed to create a signal with more power than its power supply can produce, it will amplify the...
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    a Class AB Power Amplifier with 2 x 100 Watts output power at 8 Ohms. ML-11, a Class AB Power Amplifier with 2 x 50 Watts output power at 8 Ohms. LNP-1...
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  • for its power amplifiers, but has also manufactured microphones, loudspeakers, and a line of commercial audio products, as well as digital audio networking...
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