Purpose

The purpose of this blog is to enable my university supervisors and I to easily share multimedia content regarding ideas for my Final Year Project and to allow ideas and opinions to be discussed.

Tuesday, 5 October 2010

Power Amplifiers

Here I will consider my choice of power amplifiers for the loudspeaker drive unit.

This seems to be a more problematic decision to make since a lot of power amplifiers are big bulky and heavy. I could of course use an off the shelf model external to my instrument, but this would mean running extra cables from the instrument and would also go against the sense of "self containedness" that I would like to aim for. Marshall created custom amplifier circuits for his viblotar so perhaps this is some thing I could look into. It may transpire though that this could be a project in itself and that I will be forced to choose a commercial model. In this case I could cite the development of an internal custom circuit as potential for future work.

For the time being, here are some power amplifiers available on RS. Obviously, power amplifiers are readily available from many sources (though not necessarily for cheap!). Number of speakers is also a consideration here since I reckon if I only have one speaker I will only need a mono amp!

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