摘要 |
A novel drive stage provides with low distortion a large amplitude signal, such as required for driving a cathode-follower output stage of a power amplifier. The drive stage comprises an amplification substage and a load substage. Each substage comprises two series connected vacuum tubes. Each substage is provided with a respective voltage divider network to provide that the two tubes of each substage share approximately equally both the quiescent static voltage and the dynamic voltage of the substage. The load substage coacts with the amplification substage to provide a novel mu-follower or SRPP circuit having approximately twice the voltage swing of a conventional circuit. This approximately quadruples the maximum power output of the cathode-follower amplifier.
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