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Confusion on small signal analysis of class AB amplifier

Confusion on small signal analysis of class AB amplifier

Hi all, so I am trying to understand class AB aplifiers and think i have a decent understanding and made a circuit, howeber this was based on videos and a conceptual understanding and now I am trying to put the maths and analyse its small signal characteristics so I can fully understand its behaviour, but the theoretical results I am seeing are not matching what I have simulated.

https://preview.redd.it/c5yr7h46fb0h1.png?width=1248&format=png&auto=webp&s=05ecfa1f0231991c189c7e2c7837d85d42c66510

Here is the spice model I made, basically want to drive max 0.5W into the 8 ohm speakers, when I run this i have a default bias of 2mA oof collecter current, I use this value to get the rpi, gm values. this gives me these values for transconductance gain and voltage gain which are nowhere near what I am seeing with a iout/vin = 0.1 for normal operation. idk where I am going wrong here or if I have like a fundamental misunderstanding any help would be appreciated.

https://preview.redd.it/5b7xgtkifb0h1.png?width=1168&format=png&auto=webp&s=d9f0fb95f9151f7b771ae821a65ac020273ddb7c

https://preview.redd.it/m5pqnotzfb0h1.png?width=1180&format=png&auto=webp&s=ed8c83c0ca41da3ee7bc2695eca46f8a7354e0ca

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