Using the AD844 as an I/V

Your quote is not altogether correct as that text refers to AD844, not AD811.

Parallel AD844s should have lower noise, but THD improvement is doubtful although lower input impedance may help. Costwise hard to see the point especially compared to the discrete BJT IV.
 
Hi Guys, here is my work of these days available to the community.
The dimensions are 62 x 69 mm and I have also planned the use of silver mica capacitors ith only two 1206 smd capacitors.
I hope I did everything right, obviously any advice is welcome.
You will also notice some strange and seemingly insignificant pads, don't worry, they are put there to be able to use the card in plug-in mode for my Philips CD960.
This is my gift for the epiphany, I hope it is appreciated.
Antonio
 

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Your quote is not altogether correct as that text refers to AD844, not AD811.

Parallel AD844s should have lower noise, but THD improvement is doubtful although lower input impedance may help. Costwise hard to see the point especially compared to the discrete BJT IV.

Sorry didn't look hard enough. But yes things do improove for the better when the 844 are stacked "without feedback", Barrie Gilbert AD's designer of the 844 agreed with that 5 years ago.
Quote from 2019:I was conversing with Barry Gilbert the designer of the AD844, he was very chuffed to see what we're doing with it without feedback and stacked for I/V stage. He was going to send me the proper schematic of everything inside it if he could find it, but he never did.

Cheers George
 
Hi Guys, here is my work of these days available to the community.
The dimensions are 62 x 69 mm and I have also planned the use of silver mica capacitors ith only two 1206 smd capacitors.
I hope I did everything right, obviously any advice is welcome.
You will also notice some strange and seemingly insignificant pads, don't worry, they are put there to be able to use the card in plug-in mode for my Philips CD960.
This is my gift for the epiphany, I hope it is appreciated.
Antonio
 

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Hi Guys, here is my work of these days available to the community.
The dimensions are 62 x 69 mm and I have also planned the use of silver mica capacitors ith only two 1206 smd capacitors.
I hope I did everything right, obviously any advice is welcome.
You will also notice some strange and seemingly insignificant pads, don't worry, they are put there to be able to use the card in plug-in mode for my Philips CD960.
This is my gift for the epiphany, I hope it is appreciated.
Antonio
 

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I went through my projects and found a perfboard with two "stacks" of AD844. There was also two 2SK170 and a trimpot for each jfet. It's been soo long since I made it, I don't know what schematic it was based on. Please post the schematic if anyone recognizes the stacks of AD844 and the description of the circuit 😅
IIRC it was to be an I/V board.
TIA 🙂
 

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If you feed an open loop AD844 from a PCM1704, resulting in 50 ohms input impedance, isn't that the near equivalent of a 50 ohms passive conversion?
Near equivalent because the resistor has a better pulse response.

How about 50 ohms, lowpass filter, gainstage 20x, buffer ?