Pro Audio Design Forum

Paul - Do you suppose that the popularity vinyl released today (that presumably sounds better due to not being over-processed and slammed to the wall to the degree that CDs are) will somehow cause people in the labels to ask if this CD loudness war shoud be stopped? It's a hope of mine. Is it even t...

Somehow the Mexican food spread inside ZZ Top's Tres Hombres just wasn't the same in CD format

I've been planning a trip to Best Buy to see what they have on LP now. I have a mental image of the new Foo Fighters LP spinning on the turntable.

BTW an intersting factoid that you guys may already be aware of. My daughter is in management at Best Buy. She told me that for a couple of years now vinyl is outselling CDs both in units and dollars. I mentioned to Paul in an e-mail that when I moved the first thing I hooked up - before the DVD pla...

Very nice build! Thank you for sharing the pics. The goal I had for this project was transparency to the degree where you could listen through the matrix with the inserts normaled and it would sound the same as the source. I guess the idea I had that day while bike-riding panned out. We all owe Roge...

Paul - Your build is awesome. You may hold the record for a rotary switch with the most poles.

I agree that the temp is too low. Have the same problem desoldering leaded radial caps on computer motherboards where the power planes are large and sometimes internal. It's a big heatsink for the iron. I think my Weller's tips are 700 degree (PTA-7?) and I didn't have a problem getting it hot enoug...

A quick update 6/28/11. As I mentioned earlier, four of the 40W Sylvania snow cones just aren't bright enough. Today while shopping at Lowes I found the Utilitech (Feit Electric) LA19DIM/800/LED which is a 60W 800 lumen 3000K. I'm impressed. These babies dim very well, are bright, and don't have an ...

Two legends are no longer with us. They will be missed:

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http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news ... c-accident

The two jumper arrangement looks right to me. Going back to the noise performance I seem to recall the numbers 34 uV, 12 uV and 8 uV for the 1606, "Cohen" symmetrical 1286 (flipped input dual diff amp), and "Birt" NJM2114 with -5.6 dB gain. I think the measurement BW was 100 kHz....

IIRC on the original proto demo board the 1606 compared to Birt using a 5532/NJM2114 was at least 10-15 dB noisier. Enough to justify re-doing the board. If you don't care about maintaining output level no matter how the dumbass customers plug in, I still recommend the simpler and more symmetrical 2...