Suggestion: Article on Amplifier Basics

Greetings,

This is not something I could contribute much to myself but if some of the experts could get their heads together I think it would really be a great thing to see in the articles section. Amplification is one of the most common topics out there and something that seems deceivingly complicated.

I think if the subject was broken down into a few main sections it would untangle alot of the mess and confusion. For example, maybe start with a basic op amp primer then taking a look at a basic audio amplifier and describe the functions of the pre amp and the power amp. Then you could talk a bit about buffering and impedance matching before finishing with a few different types like high precision for instrumentation etc.

I know this is all stuff you can find out there but I've yet to see it all in the same place and described in such a way that people of all knowledge levels can refer to and get everything they need to know.