Resistor Sound Quality?

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are 2w, for tube amp
"We will endeavour to hold the full E96 range in the ½ watt version .Whilst we always try to have every single E24 value in stock, this cannot be guaranteed"
 

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Michael Bean said:
Let's see...In my present Bi-amped system there are 53 resistors per channel for the active crossovers and amps for a total of 106. 106 X $43.21 = $4580.26. What a BARGAIN! Now where's my bank card, I NEED SOME...

Whoops, I better buy extras to cover for the ones with failed end caps...
Let's assume 15% fail, perhaps after handling. If you just buy the 106 you need then the chance that you will have a working system is 3.3 micropercent (3.3 x 10^[-8]).

You can improve the odds by buying 159: three of each value you need. For each value (assumed all different) you need at least two good ones. The chance of this is 93.925% per value. To get 53 good pairs has a chance of 3.61%.

You had better buy 212 resistors (or more).
 
Audio Note passive components with 15-20% failure rate?

Why doesn't it surprise me?

This is Audio Note's factory, inside an appartment sized room in a cheap Tokyo suburb :
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this is Mr Oda , Audio Note master Resistor and Capacitor maker, in this picture holding a handmade pure silver foil cap, which he claims took him 3 weeks to finish :
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for the full Factory/Lab/Shrine visit: Audio Note Factory Tour [English]

FWIW I wind my own 1% precision resistors out of Constantan wire (Khantal brand to be more precise) , the only ones I use as transistor emitter ballasts, so my short circuit protection is accurate ... not to mention that I can make them any odd value I happen to need, such as 0.11 ohms, or 0.38 ohms or any other.

Not forgetting that Constantan has almost 0% thermal resistive and mechanical expansion coefficient.

Not surprisingly, the Universal 1 meter reference ruler, held at Paris for over 100 years now, is made out of Constantan.

Try that buying resistors at Mouser 😉

Maybe I should invite Mr Hiroshi Iwata to visit *my* Factory 😉
 
I decided to check for directivity in resistors using my GenRad Bridge. Attached are the results. Note the resistor type, value and orientation are visible in the pictures.

Not positive proof for an obvious reason.
 

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Let's assume 15% fail, perhaps after handling. If you just buy the 106 you need then the chance that you will have a working system is 3.3 micropercent (3.3 x 10^[-8]).

You can improve the odds by buying 159: three of each value you need. For each value (assumed all different) you need at least two good ones. The chance of this is 93.925% per value. To get 53 good pairs has a chance of 3.61%.

You had better buy 212 resistors (or more).

Aw darn, that breaks the bank. I guess I'll just have to let go of my dream of improving my rig by .00000001%. 🙄
Or...I could try getting a second mortgage on my little shack in the 'burbs. 😀

Mike
 
question?

Could be I meant the Mrs' take of the 2nd mortgage sum.

(Most women love to shop till their knickers drop. My previous neighbors, both Mr and Mrs, blew their entire 2nd mortgage on fancy clothes, frequent bar visits, parties, laptops, desktops, latest/largest TV's, the lastest smartphones, holidays abroad, till they ran empty and the hammer dropped. In spite of knowing that they owned 100 times less than quite a few in my street, or just because of knowing. House sold, divorced, and not a penny wiser)
 
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well, the tread really ended (or should) some 191 pages ago, where the 3 main answers had already been given:

a) resistors have sound

b) no they do not

c) maybe/who knows?/tell me more/etc.

After the first page, everything else was just repeating a , b , or c .

So digressions, jokes, anecdotes, poems, etc. are actually welcome to turn this immensely boring and repetitive thread into something readable 😉

By the way, can anybody share a *good* Curry recipe?
 
By the way, can anybody share a *good* Curry recipe?

Therefore not even one said the very truth, that resistors them are current limiting devices and that this wired ones them they are frequency range limiting, because they are close to coils.
But the carbon type this is neutral 100% due it manufacturing process.

Now send me at my PayPal 5$ its one of you, knowledge is not free of cost, never was, never will be, at least the worthy information's.
 
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