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在Audio, Distortion and Feedback
Nelson Pass 11/1/08
的最后一段
Conclusion(结论)
Time flies, and there is still much to learn. I haven't really touched on what these pictures
mean to an audiophile, perhaps not what Srajan had in mind when he asked for this piece.
In fact, apart from assuming the preference for low amounts of simple forms of distortion, we
haven't discussed the listener at all. Nevertheless, I am trying to make a point that relates
strongly to the apparent disconnect between subjective experience and simple measurements
of distortion.
We have seen that nonlinear distortion becomes larger and more complex depending on the
nonlinear characteristic of the stages, the number of cascaded stages, and the number of
spectral elements in the music.
Negative feedback can reduce the total quantity of distortion, but it adds new components on
its own, and tempts the designer to use more cascaded gain stages in search of better
numbers, accompanied by greater feedback frequency stability issues.
The resulting complexity creates distortion which is unlike the simple harmonics associated
with musical instruments, and we see that these complex waves can gather to create the
occasional tsunami of distortion, peaking at values far above those imagined by the distortion
specifications.
If you want the peak distortion of the circuit of figure 13 to remain below .1% with a complex
signal, then you need to reduce it by a factor of about 3000. 70 dB of feedback would do it,
but that does seems like a lot.
By contrast, it appears that if you can make a single stage operate at .01% 2nd harmonic with
a single tone without feedback, you could also achieve the .1% peak in the complex IM test.
I like to think the latter would sound better.
© Nelson Pass, 2008
一个只有一级的放大器和一个有不止一级的放大器如果失真完全相同,在听感上,按Pass的说法,这单级的会更好听。 |
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