Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Matti Otala, Transient Intermodulation Distortion

At your risk.


I fondly remember reading papers by Matti Otala on how a transient (music) can make a feedback amplifier distort 100 per cent until negative feedback has time to arrive at the input leaving the amplifier at the very high open loop gain!  


https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/matti-otala-an-amplifier-milestone-dead-or-alive.125541/



On an AES conference in 1973, Dr. Matti Otala presented a paper describing the design of a TIM-free audio amplifier...




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