Conclusions: 
Although I have not been exhaustive, 
hopefully this article will have gone some way to de-
mystifying the operation of the SRPP for some 
readers, and illustrated what the SRPP does best. It 
is a genuine push-pull amplifier, and is best suited to 
small power  applications, and will drive surprisingly 
heavy loads. Dynamic headphones (normally around 15Ω
 to 300Ω) are one ideal application, and a pair of 
ECC82 / 12AU7, ECC88 / 6DJ8 or 6SN7 are more 
than capable of making a good SRPP headphone 
amplifier which will drive most types of headphones, 
even cheap, low impedance earbuds!  
The textbook version of the SRPP, where Rk1 is 
bypassed, offers about twice the gain and half the 
output impedance compared to the equivalent 
unbypassed version, but the available output power 
is actually slightly less. So unless we really need the 
extra gain, most designers will choose the 
unbypassed version. Not only does it offer less 
distortion, but the higher output impedance will allow 
the use of a smaller output coupling capacitor. For 
example, an ECC88 / 6DJ8 driving a 15Ω