Due to their small physical size and high energy efficiency, Class D amplifiers have become fixtures in smartphones and battery-driven artificial intelligence (AI) speakers, where space and power are ...

Editor's note: This multi-part article is an expanded version of the article by the same title published in the EE Times print edition. Figure 2: Class D open-loop-amplifier block diagram. Since most ...

If you didn’t know better, you might think the phrase “class A amplifier” was a marketing term to help sell amplifiers. But it is, of course, actually a technical description of an amplifier that ...

The efficiency and size advantages of Class D audio amplification in battery- powered devices are well known. These advantages are now extended to amplifiers up to 500W, made possible by solidstate ...

Class D amplifiers are revolutionizing the audiophile world, delivering top-tier sound without the hefty price tag. Discover how brands like NAD, Topping, and SMSL are making high-quality audio ...

The most common audio power amplifier operates in the Class-AB mode. It provides the greatest amount of output power with the least amount of distortion. The downside is that it consumes quite a bit ...

Technology has democratized the music industry in many obvious ways -- notice how every band, regardless of stature, has a MySpace page? But one of technology's more subtle effects has been to make ...

Class-D audio amplifiers represent a significant advancement in modern audio engineering by utilising high-frequency pulse modulation to drive output stages with exceptional efficiency. Unlike ...

Class D amps from $130 to $50,000—pulling more ears into hi-fi without demanding you sell a kidney. Solid tech, serious power, and none of the usual overpriced fluff. Finally, affordable doesn’t sound ...

In March 1985, I was reading a copy of my favorite hi-fi magazine. It carried a story about a brand-new British amplifier from Musical Fidelity. The reviews for the A1 amplifier were glowing, as was ...