Hi, just for information, the following sentence is not exactly true : Q=0.71 has the
most linear response
-> Q = 0.71 means that you have a butterworth filter. So frequency response is the most flat as possible in the passband. However, the delay group is not constant.
-> Q = 0.58 means that you have a bessel filter. You lost a little bit voltage level until cut frequency but the delay group is constant
It means that if you send a square signal in a bessel filter, the output is a square signal. For butterworth, it is an almost a square signal: don't forget that a square wave signal is a sum of sinusoidal signals at different frequencies (harmonics). With a bessel filter the different sinusoidal signals are not "delayed" so the sum is the same as with no filter 😉
So for me, bessel (Q=0.58) is the most linear filter 😉
most linear response
-> Q = 0.71 means that you have a butterworth filter. So frequency response is the most flat as possible in the passband. However, the delay group is not constant.
-> Q = 0.58 means that you have a bessel filter. You lost a little bit voltage level until cut frequency but the delay group is constant
It means that if you send a square signal in a bessel filter, the output is a square signal. For butterworth, it is an almost a square signal: don't forget that a square wave signal is a sum of sinusoidal signals at different frequencies (harmonics). With a bessel filter the different sinusoidal signals are not "delayed" so the sum is the same as with no filter 😉
So for me, bessel (Q=0.58) is the most linear filter 😉