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Upgrading my Home Theater to 4k, Part 1

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I have for a long time been planning and wanting to upgrade my Home Theater especially on the picture side. Not that I do not want to upgrade the sound side as well, but that will take much more DIY and I do not have the time right now. The old Projector was a Sanyo PLV- Z700, a Full HD 1920 x 1080 with a contrast ratio of 10.000:1. I have been very happy with this projector, the picture is film like, but it lacks the lush colors, the sharpness and the deep blacks of modern projectors. The Screen was … Continue reading Upgrading my Home Theater to 4k, Part 1

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Class D using PQFN 5X6 mm MosFets

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In my quest for making an all SMD Class D amp (see other post) I found that you can get some really good new Fets in very small PQFN 5x6mm packages. Some even come with a dual cooling option where you have a cooling pad on top as well as on the bottom. Gives a lot of opportunities. I decided to try out some of these fets, namely the FDMS86200DC from Onsemi, which is a super fast 150 V, 35 A, 18 mOhm fet. As it is only 150V the power in 8 ohm will be limited, but still using … Continue reading Class D using PQFN 5X6 mm MosFets

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All SMD Class D AMP

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I have been thinking about creating an All SMD component Class D amplifier. The purpose would be to keep a totally clean back side of the PCB, so that mounting the amp to a heatsink or an aluminum plate would be as easy as just using a foam heatsink spacer in the full size of the PCB, with maybe a single or 2 screws as a safety measure if the adhesive should somehow slip over time. I have over the last month been in the process of changing to KiCad 6.0, having been used to some old student versions of … Continue reading All SMD Class D AMP

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What Drivers Do They Use? – Procella Speakers

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Procella is a well known and highly acclaimed Swedish company selling high end Home Theater speakers as well as speakers for cinema use. The founders Anders Uggelberg and Gerben Van Duyl used to work for DTS, where Anders was Director of Cinema Technology for DTS Europe. The brand was formed after Anders in 2005 was responsible for building the state of the art DTS headquarter cinema, where he found that the requirements where of such that they could not find any suitable speakers, and therefore decided to build their own. In 2006 Procella was founded. Read much more here. Procella … Continue reading What Drivers Do They Use? – Procella Speakers

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What Drivers Do They Use? – Kii Audio / Kii Three

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The Kii Audio Kii Three, is a briliant construction and innovation setting new standards for a small speaker this size. Brain child of not least Bruno Putzeys, the inventor of the UcD class D amplifier topology and co-owner of Hypex, it builds on the heritage of small active studio monitors but with some distinct refinements. Another speaker of the time is the rivaling Dutch & Dutch c8 which shows much the same performance with regards to constant directivity but implemented in a different way. The speaker is of course fully active, and the filtering is done i the digital domain … Continue reading What Drivers Do They Use? – Kii Audio / Kii Three