I asked this once before, but I'm going to ask it again, hoping someone who knows will enlighten me.
The output of an IF amp is perhaps 10 mV peak. If not, we must attenuate it, for the input of a common emitter amp is limited to 10 mV peak. Otherwise it distorts the output. Therefore cascading does no good. So how in the world do we get, say 10 volts peak, into a speaker? I mean consider it: the CE amp would have to have a gain of 1000 volts per volt. That creates an instability in itself.
Where am I going wrong?
The output of an IF amp is perhaps 10 mV peak. If not, we must attenuate it, for the input of a common emitter amp is limited to 10 mV peak. Otherwise it distorts the output. Therefore cascading does no good. So how in the world do we get, say 10 volts peak, into a speaker? I mean consider it: the CE amp would have to have a gain of 1000 volts per volt. That creates an instability in itself.
Where am I going wrong?