John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier

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This is the noise gain curve (Freq - V^2/Hz)
 

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Stability.
Noise gain is indeed related to stability. If we read Bob Pease' (Troubleshooting Analog Circuits page 100, National LB-42, http://electronicdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=7164 ) usage of noise gain, it is used for stabilisation.

Imagine an opamp with inverting and non-inverting input.
There is one stabilisation method where we can put a resistor from inverting input to ground or from inverting input to non-inverting input. This method actually altering the noise gain without altering the frequency response of the whole system, for having stability.
 

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That is an interesting problem that we first found with the JC-80. It has to do with the A+1 output from the positive out compared to just A on the negative out. If you do NOT use balanced input drive, you must attenuate the positive out a little to balance the output with the negative out. It cannot be a fixed attenuation, if you have a choice of balanced and unbalanced inputs, because the attenuation is unnecessary with balanced input. The CTC Blowtorch, although based on the same design principles, does not need this gain adjustment, because it does not use global feedback.
 
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