What exactely is clipping?

[EarDrummin. 10+ year member]

There is this thing called research, and helotaxi does it. It's how you learn stuff. And before you ask me, "how do I research then?". There is this magical place called google...
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I was asking him a question on his background, not a lesson on how to use google. I go to school for computers, but thanks.

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[homer3304 10+ year member]

I think I get it. So all a class D is, is just a better designed class c amp. Not the radical new transistors that the companies claim.

Thanks helotaxi

 

[Ricktc 10+ year member]

homer3304, you have a wicked avatar! Sorry just had to comment on that, lol.

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

I think I get it. So all a class D is, is just a better designed class c amp. Not the radical new transistors that the companies claim.
Thanks helotaxi

Uh, no.

Class C is only for RF amplifiers at one tuned frequency. Oscillators and transmitters and such. Very efficient, special purpose circuits.

Class D is a digital audio system. The audio is chopped up into small segments and switched at high frequency, then recombined into audio by passing it through a lowpass filter.

The output stages of Class D amps operate as switches - on or off- very much like pulse-width modulated power supplies do. That's how they get the efficiency out of them, it's not a linear amplifier.