Improvement of low-frequency driver performance using an amplifier with negative output impedance

T. D. Kite
Master's thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993.

Abstract

Conventional dynamic drivers exhibit poor frequency response and transient performance when measured in the laboratory. A method is presented of critically damping the driver by making use of a power amplifier with negative output impedance. The transient response and frequency response around resonance are shown to improve. Theory is compared with experiment and the two are found to agree. The stability of the system is calculated and found to agree with experiment.