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Oervad Jensen

Oervad Jensen

Dear all, I have been building the Pass ZenV9 with great results. I made the ZenV1 and ZenV4 before and… More...
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Michal Panufnik

Michal Panufnik

I built my Zen (and Bride of Zen) a year ago. Now, Im sill impressed by this sound. Its really… More...

Amp Camp Project — Pass DIY / 2016

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Zen Variations 7 — Nelson Pass / 2004

One of the performance issues raised by the original Son of Zen (Audio Electronics, #2, 1997) was its efficiency figure, which was charitably described as 4% (500 watts in, 20 watts out). You may recall that this was dictated by the original requirements - no feedback, no capacitors in the signal path, and a single gain stage. Zen Variation 6 relaxed the requirements on feedback and capacitors in order to provide a tutorial exercise about “super-symmetric” feedback. The performance was improved in distortion and output impedance, but the efficiency was only slightly improved, largely because we used most of the… More...

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