planning to build an electrostataic amp for my SRM L700.
I have built several amps for my Moving coil earphones (HD650, K601, K702...), but never built an electrostataic one, I read some topics about it, also some diagrams of amps , there are still some questions need your help.
1. Never saw the full differential structure (for example, opa1632, lme49724) used in the electrostataic amp, why?
2. The electrostataic earspeakers have much larger impedance than moving coil ones, the only capacitive impedance is isolated by the output resistor (usually 5.1k), so...the electrostataic amp works like without loads?
3. Why the output resistor is usually 5.1k ?
4. The bias terminal also has a resistor, maybe it will affect the sounds ?
5. Is the emitter follower necessary ? I noticed that the stax lower price amps (323, 353x) possess an emitter follower, it was said that "has enabled wide-range reproduction resulting in both the extended dynamic range at high frequency and the improved tone quality"....but the higher price products (717, 727, and other tube amps) DO NOT use emitter follower, so... I'm puzzled.
Temporarily above, many thanks~~~