To make a voltage amp act exactly like a current amp the series resistor should be >100kOhm and thus it will provide almost no output current.
Solderdude: I don't understand how this would make a voltage amp supply any current through the load. How will it behave in a current drive mode with a huge resistance choking the current prior to the speaker/phones?
It's only theoretical hence the words:
thus it will provide almost no output current.
IF you were to convert a voltage amp to a current amp the voltage rails would have to be very high in order to provide a current.
With 100kOhm the voltage rails would have to be a few kV in order to obtain practical values for headphones so not realsitic in any sense.
Of course using a 1k Ohm resistor in series with the output of a voltage amp will already transform it towards being a current amp.
A real current amp will have an Rout >1Mohm though (within the output voltage range it can operate in, outside of it the impedance drops dramatically).
In practice, with nominal impedances of around 30 Ohm you won't measure much differences between a real current amp and a voltage amp with 1k in series (except for output power).
For 300 Ohm headphones there will still be a difference unless you 'up' that 1k to say 10k or so.
The 100k was to make a point that converting a voltage amps into a 'real' current amp isn't really feasable in practice.
Correct me if I'm wrong, been a while since I studied Circuit analysis, if you parallel the load with a high value resistor, current will be choked through the resistor, most of the voltage will drop across the resistor as well. Thus the load will get less voltage drop, but still get the balance of the current. Output of course would be lower
If you parallel a load (assume 30 Ohm) with a high value resistor (say 300 Ohm) most of the current will flow though the 30 Ohm, after all they have the same voltage on them.
The amp will see a load of 27 Ohm and probably won't behave much differently.
Perhaps you meant: if you put a high value resistor in series with the load most of the voltage will drop across that resistor.
That would be correct and indeed the load would get almost no voltage across it BUT the current would always be virtually the same and thus act as a current source.
Example HD558: R load = 60 Ohm (call this A) and peak R load is 300 Ohm (call this B).
With a 120 Ohm 'source' and the voltage source being 10V
A would draw 10/180=
55.5 mA where B would be 10/420=
23.8mA so the current is not constant as Rsource is too small compared to R load differences.
Same example except R source = 10k
A would draw 10/10060=
0.99 mA where B would be 10/10300 =
0.97mA which is more 'constant'.
Same example except R source = 1M
A would draw 10/1000060=
9.999 uA where B would be 10/1000300 =
9.997 uA which is more even more 'constant'
The higher the series R will be the small
er the difference and the closer it gets to a real current source but also a lower current.
If you would like at least 10mA with a 1M R you will need 10kV input voltage.
This would be very dangerous when touching the terminals on open circuit.
The reason why the Bakoon can deliver more current while the max voltage is 10V is because of the circuit used.
The Bakoon simply isn't a voltage amp with a high output R but an actual current source.
For this reason it is likely the Bakoon has either 2 separate amp circuits (one current, one voltage) which would explain some of the findings such as THD or the current circuit has applies voltage feedback in some way or adds a fixed resistor + voltage follower for the output voltage stage.