The audio amplifier is a major building block in smart hearable devices—whether wired or wireless—inserted in the ear or placed behind the ear. In a hearable device design, the analog circuitry ...

Santa Clara, Calif. — National Semiconductor Corp. has included audio amplifiers in its popular WEBENCH online design environment — providing the industry's first online tool created to speed the ...

2x 500W in 2 Ohm BTL at 50V or in 4 Ohm BTL at 70V, with 97% efficiency 1x 1000W in 1 Ohm PBTL at 50V or in 2 Ohm PBTL at 70V, with 98% efficiency Less than 3W of total idle losses for the GaN power ...

1. Is Amplifier Weight an Indicator of Robust Amplifier Design? You have to find out if the amplifier is a Class A/B analog amp or a Class D digital amplifier before you can generalize about weight ...

Marshall has always been synonymous with premium sound, from its amplifiers to its headphones. After testing these stylish headphones, heres what was discovered about their sound quality, design, and ...

British audio brand Mission has released its first network music player. The compact 778S was designed in partnership with ...

A relatively new technology called the pure digital or Class-D amplifier has been introduced into the audio world. The Class-D architecture allows the input audio signal to stay in its digital format ...

It was a cold January Saturday night in Chicago and we had big plans. Buddy Guy’s Legends bar was packed. We setup directly under one of the PA speakers less than 15′ from the stage. Time to celebrate ...

We know Class D audio amplification offers advantages in efficiency and size for battery-powered devices. What you may not know, however, is that these advantages can now extend to amplifiers up to ...

H x W x D (inches) = 4 x 18 x 17.5 Technological progress is a wonderful thing. Over the past 40 years or so, we’ve seen computers that filled an entire room get eclipsed in processing power by ones ...