The All Japanese Six Radio.

The base of Q4 is biased by the 22 k ohm and 20 k ohm resistors. The collector current is set by the 1 k ohm resistor in the emitter. The transformer primary is driven by the collector of the transistor. The other end of the primary connects to -9 volts which is bypassed to ground by a 64 uf capacitor. This capacitor in conjunction with the 560 ohm resistor decouples the collector supply for Q1 through Q4 from the collector supply for Q5 and Q6. The interstage audio transformer couples the audio from the collector of Q4 to the bases of Q5 and Q6. This transformer is an impedance stepdown which is also a voltage stepdown. However it is a current step up. Transistors are current devices so the transformer is actually providing gain along with the transistors.

The bases of Q5 and Q6 are biased by the 3.3 k ohm and 68 ohm resistors. The collector currents of Q5 and Q6 are set separately by the 10 ohm resistors in each emitter. These resistors in addition to providing thermal stabilization also compensate for mismatched transistors. And furthermore they introduce some negative feedback to improve the distortion figure of the amplifier.

The collectors of Q5 and Q6 connect to each end of the output transformer and the -9 volt supply goes to the center tap. The 0.047 uf capacitor and 220 ohm resistor provide frequency compensation to keep the amplifier from oscillating or ringing when feedback is applied. The secondary of the transformer drives a speaker and a headphone jack not shown. Negative feedback is taken from the secondary through a 330 k ohm resistor and a 180 pf capacitor back to the base of Q4.

There are only 5 differences between the Voxson and Sanyo circuits. 1) The signal is coupled from the volume control to the base of Q4 by a 10 uf capacitor only with no series resistor. 2) In the Q4 collector circuit there is a 0.005 uf capacitor across the primary of the audio interstage transformer. This capacitor along with the 10 k ohm primary impedance gives a corner frequency of 3.18 kHz. That seems a little low so once again we may have a case of an incorrect value on the schematic. 3) The emitters of Q5 and Q6 are tied together and go to ground through a single 10 ohm resistor. 4) There is only a capacitor across the primary of the output transformer. And 5) there is no negative feedback around the amplifier.