George,
Sip a small glass, it is not water!
A slider with carbon composition resistors! The first Yamaha mixers (PM1000) used a rotary pot with a mechanical slip roll to make it into a slider!
In one of my test setups the Lorlin silver plated rotary switch produce enough distortion you could reliably tell one of the positions!
ES
forget the sqrt(R) dependency?
most like to use the 4.something nV/sqrt(Hz) for 1 kOhm room or calc for operating T
Johnson?Nyquist noise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
while popular with datasheet writers the "distortion magnification" completely misses input impedance nonlinearity - which often dominates today with fet input and > kOhm source
most like to use the 4.something nV/sqrt(Hz) for 1 kOhm room or calc for operating T
Johnson?Nyquist noise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
while popular with datasheet writers the "distortion magnification" completely misses input impedance nonlinearity - which often dominates today with fet input and > kOhm source
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Can you suggest a better method? I suspect their should be some difference between C coupling and what we are looking for. (The second setup may show this.)
wire both paths with something rigid, switch source far from bridge to one or the other path - then the potential is same on all the wiring (less wire Z effects) and just the current path changes ?
another verification/calibration/control would be to replace bridge with "star bridge" 4 equal arm cross to see any coupling/phase shift effects in just the wiring, sw, setup while keeping the load conditions very similar
my guess is that you'd be looking for uV/V from mutual inductance/proximity effect at even 10 kHz - do you have the AP with the 1 MHz ADC?
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Pull that rope Scott instead
Colosseum "Rope Ladder To The Moon" - YouTube
Ed, you are wrong on this.
Definitely, there are many people here that understand the talk, alas I am not among them!
(where is the description of your 10 resistor method?)
Is it this Ed?
http://www.eettaiwan.com/STATIC/PDF/200811/20081105_NS_AN03.pdf?SOURCES=DOWNLOAD
some further links for you out there
this one with some details on noise
http://www.angelfire.com/ab3/mjramp/distortiontest.pdf
a more complicated method for very low distortion measurement
http://www.analogzone.com/tmt_1002.pdf
George
How do you define "signature" ?
Response curve ? Noise ? distortion ? Mechanical effects ?
Who defines what is "audiophile ? And on witch criteria ?
Very nice, but I prefer the original Jack Bruce version...
1960 era. Full class A circuitry (2n1711 heatsinked all-over, 6-7 expensive large precision resistors, shielded and internally screened input-output transformers, on board heavy LC for the 24V already stabilized DC, ect.
Men’s talk.
My liver medical exams were long (14 years) red after my beatnik years. My second wife was the benign bitch to save me by a hair width.
Colosseum - Those About to Die (1969) - YouTube
Now I am a good boy. The usual suspects are still my friends but only occasionally.
With such talk, you made me spin records from that time and it’s only 22:00 Friday night.
What a mesh!George
Ed, you are wrong on this.
Definitely, there are many people here that understand the talk, alas I am not among them!
(where is the description of your 10 resistor method?)
Is it this Ed?
http://www.eettaiwan.com/STATIC/PDF/200811/20081105_NS_AN03.pdf?SOURCES=DOWNLOAD
some further links for you out there
this one with some details on noise
http://www.angelfire.com/ab3/mjramp/distortiontest.pdf
a more complicated method for very low distortion measurement
http://www.analogzone.com/tmt_1002.pdf
George
George,
The links are nice, but I believe the NS/TI note was revised when it was realized that the original setup had too much resistor noise. Note the use of the 10 ohm load and 10 ohm source resistor in the National TI ap note. The AP system 2 has as the minimum value 20 ohms, although on the BNC output you can set it to 50 and 600 for the XLRs.
They do mention that they were measuring .2 ppm and the technique is limited to .1 ppm, so I think they know they were down in the dirt. Now they were using the AP system 2 and Scott uses a more modern and less limited analyzer!
Now the NS/TI method I think is better than the other ap note using additional buffering. I think that was more useful when analyzers were more limited.
But I think my conclusion that they were understating the performance of their chip is correct.
As to the ten resistor method I though you were following when I showed that here. But I've attached it. I did note a small drawing error, but you'll get the idea. If the resistors are perfect there is no output.
BTY I have never done a cancellation type test on active components, so I can't offer any useful insight.
ES
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I have missed that Ed. Thanks. I’ll dig on the description of this bridge tomorrow.
In the first link, Fig.1 is with the high Rs (1M/1M/1K. Note the Cx). Fig.3 is probably the revised one with 1K/10 Ohm.
As for Fig. 1 set-up, see also the first article (Fig.4, Fig.7) in here
http://www.google.gr/url?q=http://application-notes.digchip.com/006/6-8794.pdf&sa=U&ei=jD3wUOyiDuTY0QX0r4GIBQ&ved=0CBQQFjAA&sig2=nMtI2PTMspvdB27WUuw3uw&usg=AFQjCNHJxTu0zuJk2WiRnaVwztDaBdWFiA
George
I think you found it. They started testing with a 1K resistor which changes the 2.7 nV of input noise to 2.9 nV even before any other noise issues. When they dropped to 10 ohms they went low enough that I think the AP system 2 could not drive the circuit under test beyond 5 volts. So the real question is if the test equipment can only be made out of the parts you are testing....?
So the THD may actually be limited by the passive components. Particularly when you use the wrong parts. However that is not the entire story as shown in that paper. But the LM4562 has another issue. It picks up EMI like crazy. When you provide proper input protection it works better.
The one issue that I think is still open is does the opamp clip internally under any funny conditions. But there is so much heat on that I'll leave those issues and tests for others.
ES
Today all I wanted was a big serving of avgolemeno, so I made my own. Our local Greek community has seemed to dissapear.
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