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Click and Pop Measuring Technique

Authors: Sørensen, Tomas

AES Conference: 27th International Conference: Efficient Audio Power Amplification · Paper 6-3 · September 2005

Abstract

During various occasions a digital amplifier can generate a click or a pop. The click is generated at changes of the operational modes of the amplifier, e.g. charging of capacitors or mute / unmute. For Class D amplifier systems click is typically at PWM start and stop. The audibility of a click is very dependent on the system, amplifier and speaker. Also perception of the click is subjective. This makes it difficult to compare the results from two different systems. This document specifies a measurement technique, which can be used for all systems and makes results comparable, and give limits to what is acceptable in an end application. The described measurement technique applies to all systems, which have a start up sequence of less than 1ms. For Purepath systems this applies to TAS5026, TAS5036, TAS5066, TAS5076, TAS5028, TAS5508 and TAS5518. Measurements on 2 EVM’s TAS5066-5121K6EVM and TAS5508-5121K6EVM are shown for reference.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: 27th International Conference: Efficient Audio Power Amplification
Paper number
6-3
Publication date
September 6, 2005
Session subject
Efficient Audio Power Amplification
Affiliation
Texas Instruments Denmark A/S (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper