The efficiency of portable battery driven sound systems is crucial as it relates to both the playback time and cost of the system. This paper presents design considerations when designing such systems. This include loudspeaker and amplifier design. Using a low resistance voice coil realized with rectangular wire one can boost the efficiency of the loudspeaker driver and eliminate the need of an additional power supply. A newly developed switching topology is described that is beneficial to near-idle efficiency (< 2 W), which is crucial for real audio applications in the consumer electronics space. A small sized sound system was implemented using the discussed design considerations. The amplifier efficiency performance was found to be very high with near-idle efficiency reaching a remarkably 88% at 2W. The average output SPL was estimated to be up to 90 dB in half spheric anechoic conditions. Measured results are compared with current state-of-art and shows a 14% points efficiency improvement.

Authors: Iversen, Niels Elkjær; Oortgiesen, Rien; Knott, Arnold; Andersen, Michael A. E.; Høyerby, Mikkel
Affiliations: Technical University of Denmark, Kogens Lyngby, Denmark; Merus Audio, Herlev, Denmark(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 141 (September 2016) Paper Number: 9650
Publication Date: September 20, 2016
Subject: Applications in Audio

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