By the people's suggestion I bought myself a breadboard and decided to implement simple (I would even say trivial) single-supply NE5532 chip preamp. Let's see what was done.
Single-supply NE5532 chip preamp made on the breadboard
Single-supply preamp schematic
'Amplifying' resistors are selected to be the same (and thus preamp actually becomes a real one with amplifying ratio equal to 2) and to be equal to the input chain resistance (single supply shift made as resistor-based voltage divider and input resistor) to minimize bias current. That's why there are so many resistors on the actual scheme to match resistance.
Now the results.
Square wave signal
Square wave signal peak details
What is a real problem, is the input signal range as a whole. Since I used 15V as a supply voltage, its inner ground will be roughly at 7.5 V (there is an appropriate voltage divider attached to the non-inverting input signal), so having total output amplitude of 4 V may be not appropriate for the chip operational amplifier.
Big sine signal cut
Now question, why do we need chip preamp for the chip amplifier? I believe that the main reason for preamp is to allow to connect power amplifier which may have not very high input resistance, so small preamp with good characteristics (like huge input resistance and very small output one) will not distort small enough input signal. But I think that most of the modern chip sound amplifiers like LM3886 already have big enough input resistance (as all others they have differential amplifier as the first cascade), maybe not that high if would be built with field-effect transistors, but I wonder if that is ever noticeble.
http://www.ioremap.net/node/141
Single-supply NE5532 chip preamp made on the breadboard
Single-supply preamp schematic
'Amplifying' resistors are selected to be the same (and thus preamp actually becomes a real one with amplifying ratio equal to 2) and to be equal to the input chain resistance (single supply shift made as resistor-based voltage divider and input resistor) to minimize bias current. That's why there are so many resistors on the actual scheme to match resistance.
Now the results.
Square wave signal
Square wave signal peak details
What is a real problem, is the input signal range as a whole. Since I used 15V as a supply voltage, its inner ground will be roughly at 7.5 V (there is an appropriate voltage divider attached to the non-inverting input signal), so having total output amplitude of 4 V may be not appropriate for the chip operational amplifier.
Big sine signal cut
Now question, why do we need chip preamp for the chip amplifier? I believe that the main reason for preamp is to allow to connect power amplifier which may have not very high input resistance, so small preamp with good characteristics (like huge input resistance and very small output one) will not distort small enough input signal. But I think that most of the modern chip sound amplifiers like LM3886 already have big enough input resistance (as all others they have differential amplifier as the first cascade), maybe not that high if would be built with field-effect transistors, but I wonder if that is ever noticeble.
http://www.ioremap.net/node/141
