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Old 23rd November 2010, 06:05 PM   #1
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Default Input impedance resistor, F4 amplifier

Is the quality of this input impedance resistor that important for the quality of sound? I am asking this question because I need to bring the input impedance fron 47500 ohms to around 41,000 so i can use a given cap in my HP line filter. I am considering installing a 300,000 ohm resistor from line to ground in the preamp's output which would give, with the F4's impedance an
effective impedance of 41,000 ohms. So, I only have Xicon metal films for this and was wondeing if this choice would affect the sound quality.
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thinking about an 1:4 input transformer for some gain... just how low can we go with the input impedance?
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as much source can manage without loosing steam

so - what's output impedance of previous gadget ?
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that would require some sort of stereo stasis! I have a couple of different buffer preamps B1, not quite finished heretical, but things seem to be constantly changing.

The LL1545A datasheet recommends a "real source impedance" of 37 ohm, but the amplifier side would only be 10K. I guess it's a matter of whether the F4 will like it?
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F4 doesn't know what is feeding it with signal ;

little Jfets doesn't know what value of resistor is from their gates to gnd

what you need to think is proper value of net needed to linearize xformer ( net means either solo resistor or resistor in series with cap , across secondary )

so - just leave F4 as is , thinking only of needed voltage to feed it .

also - think about using xformer in autoformer mode - that way you'll have slightly improved sound
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also - think about using xformer in autoformer mode - that way you'll have slightly improved sound
sounds like something that can easily be tried both ways.
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