Curse those right-half planes.Again, I disagree. Sziklai pairs have a tendency to oscillate.
Agreed. Also, there is an extra Vbe loss in the top circuit than in the bottom.Your positive peaks are clipped because the NPN and PNP driver transistors do not have enough hFE and do not have matched hFE. The PNP KSA1381 has a much higher range of hFE than the NPN KFC3503DS.
It doesn't matter because the difference in output level between low distortion and that clipping is very small.
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