An amplifier includes a PWM converter that carries out pulse width modulation on differential input signals to generate differential PWM signals by comparing the differential input signals with sawtooth or triangular reference signal, and a power amplifier that carries out power amplification of the differential PWM signals to generate differential output signals. The power amplifier has a driver that drives a load with differential driving signals, a controller that sets a dead time in the differential driving signals to prevent current flow between power supply and ground terminals of the driver circuit, and a pre-delay compensator that generates the differential driving signals based on the differential PWM signals and sends the differential driving signals to the controller. The differential driving signals generated by the pre-delay compensator includes a pulse width for compensating for the dead time that is to be set in the differential driving signals by the controller.