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Hello

How about this B1 with a gain stage ?

Does the sound of it would be same than the original B1 ?

Thank

Gaetan
 

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Thanks for all your cooments.
Zygibajt, the link for the passive preamp you provide is for the product build in Warszawa, Poland: akustyk.com.
The switches are made as custom and the guys making them told that switches configured only for shunt toplogy. They do not make them as series or ladder. They also sell switches you see in that box. Switches named: Khozmo. Khozmo Volume Attenuator
Again only shunt reg.
 
Thanks for all your cooments.
Zygibajt, the link for the passive preamp you provide is for the product build in Warszawa, Poland: akustyk.com.
The switches are made as custom and the guys making them told that switches configured only for shunt toplogy. They do not make them as series or ladder. They also sell switches you see in that box. Switches named: Khozmo. Khozmo Volume Attenuator
Again only shunt reg.

Big sorry, I truly haven't even noticed they are from my country. I have never heard of them and this is first time I see this product and the switches they make. To be hones I'm very rarely interested what is happening in audio inside my country but rather worldwide. Not much happening over here. Thanks for pointing this.
 
Hello

I have simulated, with Ltspice, at 1khz with 1 volt input, the B1 with gain circuit in the post #664

The thd fft spectrum show much more distortions than the original B1 circuit simulation.

Is it normal, what modifications could be done to lower the distortions of the B1 with gain circuit ?

I include an image of the thd fft spectrum and the .asc file of the B1 with gain circuit.

Thank you

Bye

Gaetan
 

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Hi Gaetan, note that I have no idea what I'm doing but try increasing R9 to 20K and R10 to 5.6K I think you should see a big improvement in your distortion :)

Note I modified the circuit on the B1 side to be closer to the original, but that had very little effect (if any) on the distortion, so I turned to the gain stage. That dropped the THD from 0.17% to 0.05%

Attached is from your original circuit with only the two mentioned resistors changed.

fourier output for modification below:

Fourier components of V(out)
DC component:-0.00144491

Harmonic Frequency Fourier Normalized Phase Normalized
Number [Hz] Component Component [degree] Phase [deg]
1 1.000e+03 3.428e+00 1.000e+00 179.76° 0.00°
2 2.000e+03 1.740e-03 5.076e-04 77.96° -101.80°
3 3.000e+03 1.565e-04 4.567e-05 -145.84° -325.60°
4 4.000e+03 1.255e-05 3.660e-06 -124.45° -304.21°
5 5.000e+03 1.556e-06 4.539e-07 50.03° -129.73°
6 6.000e+03 1.332e-07 3.884e-08 44.86° -134.90°
7 7.000e+03 4.876e-08 1.422e-08 -153.42° -333.18°
8 8.000e+03 3.334e-08 9.726e-09 177.73° -2.04°
9 9.000e+03 2.812e-08 8.203e-09 171.55° -8.21°
Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.050964%


Date: Fri Feb 08 23:31:43 2013

fourier output for unmodified output below:

Fourier components of V(out)
DC component:-0.00535448

Harmonic Frequency Fourier Normalized Phase Normalized
Number [Hz] Component Component [degree] Phase [deg]
1 1.000e+03 3.299e+00 1.000e+00 179.97° 0.00°
2 2.000e+03 5.639e-03 1.709e-03 89.41° -90.56°
3 3.000e+03 4.213e-04 1.277e-04 -178.57° -358.54°
4 4.000e+03 3.495e-05 1.059e-05 -91.62° -271.59°
5 5.000e+03 3.108e-06 9.421e-07 2.08° -177.89°
6 6.000e+03 3.431e-07 1.040e-07 110.15° -69.82°
7 7.000e+03 1.465e-07 4.439e-08 -177.64° -357.61°
8 8.000e+03 1.041e-07 3.155e-08 -179.89° -359.85°
9 9.000e+03 8.890e-08 2.694e-08 176.92° -3.05°
Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.171381%


Tony.
 

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Hi Gaetan, As I said I have no Idea what I am doing, so any explanation will be speculation on my part... I tried isolating the gain stage from the buffer stage, in case it was an interaction between the two cricuits but it didn't change things, so it appears that the distortion is directly related to the amount of current flowing through the fet (I also simmed with 10K and 2.8K first and it was higher in distortion).
Although the gain stage is about as simple as it gets, I unfortunately do not really know enough to say how and why things affect the distortion, I just had a hunch that increasing the resistance may help.

Tony.
 
I would start by planning to insert it in place of the input 2 on the B1 board... I'm assuming you're using Pass boards. I find that the signal path traces for the input 2 are a tiny bit more direct... probably makes no difference but...
Of course you could still use the board supplied traces for two inputs and using your switch and another single switch wind up with 4 total. Tie the grounds (all the inputs on the board share the common ground) and use the switch to select 1 of 3 pair hot leads!
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