Hi everyone.
Recently, I have been doing a composite amplifier with tpa6120a2. It's a great chip and i have had pretty good result so far.
However these is something I can't explain so far.
I have had a chance to measure the distortion of the original jds el amp and did modification with opa2211/opa1612 and had higher distortion with low impedance load at high frequency 5-10khz.
As we all know opa2211 has by far the best spec (not sure about ad797 but still).
Here is the problem. I used opa1612 to control the tpa6120 and had higher distortion at high frequency as well. When recently opa2156 came out, I tried them in the same circuit, the thd is impressive at 0.00009% at 6500hz. That is better than opa1612 as what I remembered. But two days ago I had some sort of discussion in another thread about cmrr etc. That got me thinking, opa1612 has super high CMRR across the frequency range up to about 100khz and very high open loop gain at 10khz. Why it made the measurements worse than with opa2156?
Today, I am thinking, probably it's just in my mind, maybe circuit had some issues or measurement equipment wasn't right, or I got fake opa1612 etc. Just now, I retested with new opa1612 and opa2211. The distortion of the amp into 250mv 8 ohm load at 6500hz with opa1612 and opa2211 is 0.00026%(they are pretty much the same chip) but when I measured with opa2156 I get 0.00009-0.0001% less than a half distortion at 6500hz (maybe even lower because that's about the limit of my measurement rig).
Could someone give me a explanation?
I assume it's because of fet input or something related to that. But cmrr should be what matters, right?
The parameters I took considerations are:
open loop gain especially at around 10khz
CMRR especially at around 10khz
THD of the opamp
Things probably matters but I don't have connections yet:
input impedance
low input/ source impedance of my circuit
470ohm Rf in the nested feedback network
Another side information: yesterday I measured jds atom which has njm2068 wrapping around lme49600 instead of lme49720. The performance under load is pretty much the same as opa2156 and is better than what I measured from el amp. Njm2068 doesn't have jfet input nor have super high loop gain or anything.
Summing of information:
njm2068 and opa2156 lower distortion
lme49720 and opa1612/opa2211 higher distortion
Please, someone give me some insights, thanks in advance.
Recently, I have been doing a composite amplifier with tpa6120a2. It's a great chip and i have had pretty good result so far.
However these is something I can't explain so far.
I have had a chance to measure the distortion of the original jds el amp and did modification with opa2211/opa1612 and had higher distortion with low impedance load at high frequency 5-10khz.
As we all know opa2211 has by far the best spec (not sure about ad797 but still).
Here is the problem. I used opa1612 to control the tpa6120 and had higher distortion at high frequency as well. When recently opa2156 came out, I tried them in the same circuit, the thd is impressive at 0.00009% at 6500hz. That is better than opa1612 as what I remembered. But two days ago I had some sort of discussion in another thread about cmrr etc. That got me thinking, opa1612 has super high CMRR across the frequency range up to about 100khz and very high open loop gain at 10khz. Why it made the measurements worse than with opa2156?
Today, I am thinking, probably it's just in my mind, maybe circuit had some issues or measurement equipment wasn't right, or I got fake opa1612 etc. Just now, I retested with new opa1612 and opa2211. The distortion of the amp into 250mv 8 ohm load at 6500hz with opa1612 and opa2211 is 0.00026%(they are pretty much the same chip) but when I measured with opa2156 I get 0.00009-0.0001% less than a half distortion at 6500hz (maybe even lower because that's about the limit of my measurement rig).
Could someone give me a explanation?
I assume it's because of fet input or something related to that. But cmrr should be what matters, right?
The parameters I took considerations are:
open loop gain especially at around 10khz
CMRR especially at around 10khz
THD of the opamp
Things probably matters but I don't have connections yet:
input impedance
low input/ source impedance of my circuit
470ohm Rf in the nested feedback network
Another side information: yesterday I measured jds atom which has njm2068 wrapping around lme49600 instead of lme49720. The performance under load is pretty much the same as opa2156 and is better than what I measured from el amp. Njm2068 doesn't have jfet input nor have super high loop gain or anything.
Summing of information:
njm2068 and opa2156 lower distortion
lme49720 and opa1612/opa2211 higher distortion
Please, someone give me some insights, thanks in advance.
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