>Can someone answer a naive question, please?
>
>What is the difference between audio amplification and linear RF
>amplification?
Audio amplifiers use a 2-tube push-pull configuration with a transformer.
Each tube supplies half of the waveform. Tube-type RF linear amplifiers
use a push-push configuration with a Pi-network/'flywheel' that fills in
the other half of the waveform. Audio amplifiers can amplify
non-coherent waveforms and coherent waveforms. Push-push RF linear
amplifiers only amplify coherent waveforms.
>Don't both require a linear amplifier, with the same
>transfer characteristics? Aren't the mathematical models for analysis
>the same?
The models are different.
Rich---
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