Vishay Angstrohm????

Thomas001 · 9th December 2005, 08:55 PM

Hi all,

I got some resistors from surplus store and from the marking it is a RNR60c made by Vishay Angstrohm. The resistor is beautiful, it has a glass body with gold plated lead. Does anyone know if this thing sounded any good? I have attached a spec. from the vishay site for this resistor. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Tom

Thomas001 · 11th December 2005, 03:01 PM

Anybody???

Curmudgeon · 11th December 2005, 06:21 PM

I don't know, but if the leads are non-magnetic, I sure would give them a try myself. If metal film resistors are made without magnetic leads, it is very hard for me to distinguish any difference; you need a very revealing system (in my experience, YMMV) to hear the differences between the good and the very best.

edit: And the differences I heard were very small anyway.

Damon Hill · 11th December 2005, 06:41 PM

Given my druthers, I'd rather go with bulk metal foil resistors,
but this is certainly a very high quality part and probably very
much more expensive than a conventional non-hermetic
metal film resistors. It certainly has 'eye appeal' and excellent
stability, Tc, etc. If anything, it would be overkill in almost any
audio design.

Whether it will 'sound better' than most resistors could only
be determined by a listening test.

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11th December 2005, 03:01 PM	#2
Thomas001 diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Toronto	Anybody???

11th December 2005, 06:21 PM	#3
Curmudgeon diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2005	I don't know, but if the leads are non-magnetic, I sure would give them a try myself. If metal film resistors are made without magnetic leads, it is very hard for me to distinguish any difference; you need a very revealing system (in my experience, YMMV) to hear the differences between the good and the very best. edit: And the differences I heard were very small anyway.

11th December 2005, 06:41 PM	#4
Damon Hill diyAudio Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Auburn, WA (somewhere between Seattle and Tacoma) Blog Entries: 1	Given my druthers, I'd rather go with bulk metal foil resistors, but this is certainly a very high quality part and probably very much more expensive than a conventional non-hermetic metal film resistors. It certainly has 'eye appeal' and excellent stability, Tc, etc. If anything, it would be overkill in almost any audio design. Whether it will 'sound better' than most resistors could only be determined by a listening test.

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