Circuits & Schematics Audio - 3

Derek Bowers Electronic Design Early radio receivers and record players nearly always had a knob marked “tone,” which was usually a crude low-pass filter with some form of severity adjustment. At best, these controls could partially ...

There have been many different ideas presented for increasing the acoustic output of a piezo buzzer or ultrasonic transducer. Most of them involve rather complicated circuitry that drives up the total solution cost; such as boosting the low-voltage ...

José M Miguel EDN Testing audio-noise-reduction circuits, PLLs (phase-locked loops), and audio-frequency filters may require a noisy sine wave, one that is summed with white noise. Using a typical computer sound card, free software, and an ...

John Guy, Maxim Integrated EDN The increasing acceptance of Class D amplifiers has helped them gain market share from their linear Class AB brethren. That acceptance is no surprise; the advantages of Class D amplifiers are legion, but such ...

Lawrence Mayes EDN In audio-mixing applications, one frequently required function involves mixing a monaural or single-channel source into a stereo-sound field. Audio engineers refer to a panoramic-potentiometer circuit as a circuit that generates ...

Bruce Trump, Texas Instruments EDN The electret microphone capsule is similar to those commonly used in telephones, cassette recorders, and computers. The element functions as a capacitor with a fixed trapped charge. Sound pressure moves a ...

Wayne Sward EDN The circuit in Figure 1 efficiently monitors common digital-audio signals. One format for such signals is the Audio Engineering Society (AES) 44.1- or 48-kHz standard. Typically, the data consists of a serial data stream with a data ...

John Ambrose EDN Tracking notch filters find use in harmonic-distortion analyzers; they also can remove heterodyne noise from ham-radio systems. A conventional tracking switched-capacitor notch filter relies on a bandpass filter, a ...

Introduction A new family of op amps features industry leading speed versus supply current. The LTC6261/LTC6262/LTC6263 family (single, dual, quad) provides 30 MHz at a low 240 uA supply current, with 400 uV maximum offset voltage and rail-to-rail ...

Pierre Corbeil EDN Class B amplifiers are prone to crossover distortion, which occurs in the output stage in which conduction transfers from one transistor to the other. To prevent crossover distortion, a bias current must flow in both transistors ...