John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part II

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I guess you mis-understood my comment, I was only talking about TDS and doing it in software rather than building a specialized analog box to do it.

When I read Richard's papers I realized I could make an HP spectrum analyzer (~1980 vintage) do it and get the phase wrap you describe, etc. by offsetting the IF i.e. shifting the time window that the "radio" is looking at from the stimulus (sin sweep in frequency).

Hi Scott
No, I understood what you meant, I was talking about what you get using some of what is available to measure loudspeakers with using that approach.

Yeah, it turns out Richard was a Ham radio operator, when I saw that stuff in the archive room the light went on exactly how he made the connection.

In the 90’s I had some software called Hypersignal, sort of early DSP drag and drop building block software (which I loved but stopped running after win98) and had built up sections of the ETC /TDS system.
I got all the sections to work but it lost sync which everything was tied together. Unfortunately the company went under which made me sad.
Do you know of anything like that now days?
TDS nowadays is an antique in it's available displays and post processing.
 
I haven't used the TDS box- what's the length (time-wise) of the sweep?

Hi Sy
If I wasn’t packed up to move, I would invite you over and show you, i mean to a while back.

A quick explanation how it works

https://www.clear.rice.edu/elec301/Projects00/elec301/TDS/tds.html

If you can find it on line, look for “Determination of Loudspeaker Signal Arrival Times”

Governing parameters about page 49 here;

http://www.gold-line.com/pdf/manual/soundlabfordos_tdsmanual.pdf

A friend explains the “where is time zero” issues taking an ETC

http://www.excelsior-audio.com/Publications/Phase_Response_&_Receive_Delay.pdf

Doug Jones, Professor Emeritus who was a friend of Dicks, friend of mine and co-worker at Danley sound Labs has, compiled AND made available essentially everything in the archive .

Richard C. Heyser - College Archives - Columbia College Chicago

Best,
Tom Danley
 
Tom- where are you moving? Still here in the area?

I'm pretty familiar with the theory of TDS, the question was more practical; to get the great s/n you talked about, what measurement time is needed? IOW, the actual length of the sweep. When I do comparisons to things like MLS or Hadamard, that's always the tradeoff, measurement time vs s/n.
 
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Tom- where are you moving? Still here in the area?

I'm pretty familiar with the theory of TDS, the question was more practical; to get the great s/n you talked about, what measurement time is needed? IOW, the actual length of the sweep. When I do comparisons to things like MLS or Hadamard, that's always the tradeoff, measurement time vs s/n.

Can't beat Heisenberg, that spectrum analyzer at 3Hz IF BW crawled across the screen.
 
Can't beat Heisenberg...

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Apt remarks in the conclusion - it's all very, very hard ...

The pragmatic approach is to use the ears to detect whether audibly significant distortion is occurring - which is only the first step, after all - and devote most of the energy on resolving the causal factors. And aural detection is easy if the right source material is used - picking the right "excitation frequencies" IOW.
 
... speakers are designed for ideal voltage source amplifiers I don't see any change coming soon. The auxiliary issues require some user intervention, I see this lack of plug and play a show stopper. ...

You're right as usual. Me, I'm tip-toeing out the back door with Richard....

:cool:

sputter, flutter, pflpflp...

Dear fine Sirs,

I hope to raise a valid point for your consideration. Of course, most drivers are designed for v drive but that doesn't mean we can't find some that are appropriate for c drive.

Current drive, of course, isn't meant for the majority of drivers but Esa Merilainen in

CH-11: creates nice c drive speak from: P17WJ-00-04 and PL18WO09-04

CS-12: D2905/970000 / D2905/990000

CS-8: PL11WH09-04 / w no tweet!

http://www.datasheets.pl/SPEAKERS/VIFA/PL11WH0904.pdf

http://www.troelsgravesen.dk/Jensen_files/D2905-9900.pdf

http://www.datasheets.pl/SPEAKERS/VIFA/PL18WO0904.pdf

...

I'll post some sch from scans at work.

Cheers,
Jeff





I'll upload pics tomorrow from work.
 
... speakers are designed for ideal voltage source amplifiers I don't see any change coming soon. The auxiliary issues require some user intervention, I see this lack of plug and play a show stopper. ...

You're right as usual. Me, I'm tip-toeing out the back door with Richard....

:cool:

sputter, flutter, pflpflp...

Dear fine Sirs,

I hope to raise a valid point for your consideration. Of course, most drivers are designed for v drive but that doesn't mean we can't find some that are appropriate for c drive.

Current drive, of course, isn't meant for the majority of drivers but Esa Merilainen in Current-Driving of Loudspeakers talks about:

CH-11: creates nice c drive speak from: P17WJ-00-04 and PL18WO09-04

CS-12: D2905/970000 / D2905/990000

CS-8: PL11WH09-04 / w no tweet!

http://www.datasheets.pl/SPEAKERS/VIFA/PL11WH0904.pdf

http://www.troelsgravesen.dk/Jensen_files/D2905-9900.pdf

http://www.datasheets.pl/SPEAKERS/VIFA/PL18WO0904.pdf

...

I'll post some sch from scans at work.

Cheers,
Jeff
 
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