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Hello,
Do different types of (let's narrow it down to small-signal devices) BJTs sound significantly different in anyone's experience, in various types of audio circuits? They all have that exponential relationship between base-emitter voltage and collector current. I'm wondering what could account for differences in sound, assuming those differences exist. I recently built a BJT emitter follower with a another BJT as a current source feeding it, and even though it measures very well (junk down about 105 dB from the fundamental test tone) it added a noticeable brightness to audio passing through it. It just confounds me that this could be audible. Thanks, Sean B |
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On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 23:37:27 -0700 (PDT), Sean B
wrote: Hello, Do different types of (let's narrow it down to small-signal devices) BJTs sound significantly different in anyone's experience, in various types of audio circuits? They all have that exponential relationship between base-emitter voltage and collector current. I'm wondering what could account for differences in sound, assuming those differences exist. I recently built a BJT emitter follower with a another BJT as a current source feeding it, and even though it measures very well (junk down about 105 dB from the fundamental test tone) it added a noticeable brightness to audio passing through it. It just confounds me that this could be audible. Thanks, Sean B Much more likely (if there genuinely is a brightening, which I somehow doubt), that the reduced output impedance is flattening the top end of a subsequent capacitive load - maybe the result of some cable. I'd suggest you make an objective frequency response measurement to see if there actually is an effect. Your figure of junk at -105dB surprises me somewhat. Emitter followers are just not that linear - the internal emitter resistance is roughly 26/Ic(mA) so a signal is always modulating the output voltage, resulting in even + odd order harmonics. d --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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Do different types of (let's narrow it down to small-signal devices) BJTs s= ound significantly different in anyone's experience, in various types of au= dio circuits? They all have that exponential relationship between base-emi= tter voltage and collector current. I'm wondering what could account for d= ifferences in sound, assuming those differences exist. Yes, nonlinearities differ between transistors, but if you look at the plots most of the real differences are at low levels. So much of the secret is in setting the bias up high enough so that you're never working down there. The rest of the secret is in negative feedback, which can totally eliminate part to part differences if you're careful enough. I recently built a BJT emitter follower with a another BJT as a current sou= rce feeding it, and even though it measures very well (junk down about 105 = dB from the fundamental test tone) it added a noticeable brightness to audi= o passing through it. It just confounds me that this could be audible. 1. Likely you have second harmonic distortion at low levels. Measure it and see. 2. Likely the distortion is much worse at low levels than at maximum level and you may have measured it at maximum level (because that's what people do). 3. It's possible that the lower output impedance affected whatever you were driving, also, and it's not the circuit causing the difference but the interface. A simple follower has 100% feedback and should have very very low distortion as you note. So start changing things. Replace that current source with a resistor. Change the source impedance using a shunt resistor. Pull the transistor out and stick a TIP50 in (a personal favorite trick since a TIP50 has just awful linearity). --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Don Pearce wrote:
On 14 Oct 2017 08:27:00 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: A simple follower has 100% feedback and should have very very low distortion as you note. So start changing things. Replace that current source with a resistor. Change the source impedance using a shunt resistor. Pull the transistor out and stick a TIP50 in (a personal favorite trick since a TIP50 has just awful linearity). A simple follower does have 100% feedback, but unfortunately not from the right point. The current-dependent emitter resistance fall outside the loop, in series with the output, so it will add distortion which gets worse as the load resistance decreases. It is this resistance that prevents emitter followers from achieving unity gain - they are always a bit below. Yes, this is true. And you can reduce the emitter resistance to make it better into a lower load impedance, but then you can't swing as much voltage on the output. But, if this is the issue, you can tell because the distortion character will change with the load impedance. You can see it on a scope and you can hear it change as you add shunt resistances to your load. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On 14 Oct 2017 09:54:25 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
Don Pearce wrote: On 14 Oct 2017 08:27:00 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: A simple follower has 100% feedback and should have very very low distortion as you note. So start changing things. Replace that current source with a resistor. Change the source impedance using a shunt resistor. Pull the transistor out and stick a TIP50 in (a personal favorite trick since a TIP50 has just awful linearity). A simple follower does have 100% feedback, but unfortunately not from the right point. The current-dependent emitter resistance fall outside the loop, in series with the output, so it will add distortion which gets worse as the load resistance decreases. It is this resistance that prevents emitter followers from achieving unity gain - they are always a bit below. Yes, this is true. And you can reduce the emitter resistance to make it better into a lower load impedance, but then you can't swing as much voltage on the output. But, if this is the issue, you can tell because the distortion character will change with the load impedance. You can see it on a scope and you can hear it change as you add shunt resistances to your load. --scott Yep. More current makes this better. But better yet is some gain in front and an external feedback loop that comes from the emitter pin. Op-amp anybody? d --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Saturday, October 14, 2017 at 10:33:23 AM UTC-4, Don Pearce wrote:
On 14 Oct 2017 09:54:25 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: Don Pearce wrote: On 14 Oct 2017 08:27:00 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: A simple follower has 100% feedback and should have very very low distortion as you note. So start changing things. Replace that current source with a resistor. Change the source impedance using a shunt resistor. Pull the transistor out and stick a TIP50 in (a personal favorite trick since a TIP50 has just awful linearity). A simple follower does have 100% feedback, but unfortunately not from the right point. The current-dependent emitter resistance fall outside the loop, in series with the output, so it will add distortion which gets worse as the load resistance decreases. It is this resistance that prevents emitter followers from achieving unity gain - they are always a bit below. Yes, this is true. And you can reduce the emitter resistance to make it better into a lower load impedance, but then you can't swing as much voltage on the output. But, if this is the issue, you can tell because the distortion character will change with the load impedance. You can see it on a scope and you can hear it change as you add shunt resistances to your load. --scott Yep. More current makes this better. But better yet is some gain in front and an external feedback loop that comes from the emitter pin. Op-amp anybody? The phono cartridge preamp I made used (2) Op-Amps per channel, via Walter Jung's design. Even published in (defunct) High Fidelity Magazine. Impressive. Jack d --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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Thanks for the ideas!
The follower was biased at 9mA, driving about 7 volts peak-to-peak into a lightish 4.7k load. I'm measuring with an m-audio sound card which has second harmonic about 120 dB down at an output around 3V rms @ 1 kHz (sine). One other thing I wonder about: a lot of components made today have iron in their lead wires, can this cause noticeable distortion compared to all copper? S |
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Sean B wrote:
Thanks for the ideas! The follower was biased at 9mA, driving about 7 volts peak-to-peak into a lightish 4.7k load. I'm measuring with an m-audio sound card which has second harmonic about 120 dB down at an output around 3V rms @ 1 kHz (sine). Do you really trust that card that much? I might, if I'd measured it with accurate enough references, but I wouldn't until I'd done that. One other thing I wonder about: a lot of components made today have iron in their lead wires, can this cause noticeable distortion compared to all copper? It can cause measurable distortion if there is considerable change in current with respect to time. This is an issue for things like power amplifier stages. There is some discussion of it and some examples with measurements in Doug Self's book. I am inclined to think this is mostly not an issue but you can get yourself into situations where it might be. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Don Pearce wrote:
On 14 Oct 2017 09:54:25 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: But, if this is the issue, you can tell because the distortion character will change with the load impedance. You can see it on a scope and you can hear it change as you add shunt resistances to your load. Yep. More current makes this better. But better yet is some gain in front and an external feedback loop that comes from the emitter pin. Op-amp anybody? No need to go that far, the simple Ring of Three circuit family can be found in all sorts of applications like that. Gain is cheap in the solid state world, so it's frequently to your advantage to trade it for linearity. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On 14 Oct 2017 17:11:10 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
Don Pearce wrote: On 14 Oct 2017 09:54:25 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: But, if this is the issue, you can tell because the distortion character will change with the load impedance. You can see it on a scope and you can hear it change as you add shunt resistances to your load. Yep. More current makes this better. But better yet is some gain in front and an external feedback loop that comes from the emitter pin. Op-amp anybody? No need to go that far, the simple Ring of Three circuit family can be found in all sorts of applications like that. Gain is cheap in the solid state world, so it's frequently to your advantage to trade it for linearity. Not go that far? One op-amp is far easier - and cheaper - than a ring of three transistors. d --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Saturday, October 14, 2017 at 7:50:20 PM UTC-4, geoff wrote:
On 15/10/2017 6:50 AM, wrote: The phono cartridge preamp I made used (2) Op-Amps per channel, via Walter Jung's design. Even published in (defunct) High Fidelity Magazine. Impressive. Jack The 741 Cookbook ? Yum. I forget the title, paperback book, yellow cover, probably published in the '80's, maybe Op-Amp Cookbook, by Walter Jung. My "boss" gave me the book, that's when I noticed the cartridge pre-amp with great specs. My boss had the 14 pin DIPS, needed four, even "A" Grade. He helped me select HQ passive components, metal film resistors, etc.. I learned enough CAD to lay-out the PC boards, wanted separate L&R PC boards. I thought, hey, why not mirror one!! Photo etched the boards, drilled them, everything going GREAT!! Started stuffing the boards, wanted to use IC sockets. The last thing was inserting the Op-Amps. That's when it dawned one me, the mirrored board pin-out was reversed. I called myself a dumb Jack As*. I did the worst thing possible, and bent the IC pins over. Took it home and it worked like a champ! Was nice to thank Walter, online, many years later. Jack geopff |
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Sean B wrote:
---------------- I recently built a BJT emitter follower with a another BJT as a current source feeding it, and even though it measures very well (junk down about 105 dB from the fundamental test tone) it added a noticeable brightness to audio passing through it. It just confounds me that this could be audible. ** You post explains nothing. How about a proper description of what the set up is and how you came to your conclusion. ...... Phil |
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On 10/14/2017 6:50 PM, geoff wrote:
On 15/10/2017 6:50 AM, wrote: The phono cartridge preamp I made used (2) Op-Amps per channel, via Walter Jung's design. Even published in (defunct) High Fidelity Magazine. Impressive. Jack The 741 Cookbook ?Â* Yum. geopff Jung's work was later than the 741. I was using the LF365 and such in some my projects back then. |
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Sean B wrote:
--------------- One other thing I wonder about: a lot of components made today have iron in their lead wires, can this cause noticeable distortion compared to all copper? ** So you are an audiophool and a looney - right ? Plenty of forums exist that cater for people with your mental disability. Not here though. ..... Phil |
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On Saturday, October 14, 2017 at 8:34:58 PM UTC-4, gray_wolf wrote:
On 10/14/2017 6:50 PM, geoff wrote: On 15/10/2017 6:50 AM, wrote: The phono cartridge preamp I made used (2) Op-Amps per channel, via Walter Jung's design. Even published in (defunct) High Fidelity Magazine. Impressive. Jack The 741 Cookbook ?Â* Yum. geopff Jung's work was later than the 741. I was using the LF365 and such in some my projects back then. Understood. I forget Op-Amp number, but 4 digit, like 7334 or something like that. Much earlier, maybe later 60's early 70's, I purchased the world's very first IC power amp. Strange physical configuration, may a couple Watts RMS (mono). Never did anything with it. Jack |
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Don Pearce wrote:
On 14 Oct 2017 17:11:10 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: Don Pearce wrote: On 14 Oct 2017 09:54:25 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: But, if this is the issue, you can tell because the distortion character will change with the load impedance. You can see it on a scope and you can hear it change as you add shunt resistances to your load. Yep. More current makes this better. But better yet is some gain in front and an external feedback loop that comes from the emitter pin. Op-amp anybody? No need to go that far, the simple Ring of Three circuit family can be found in all sorts of applications like that. Gain is cheap in the solid state world, so it's frequently to your advantage to trade it for linearity. Not go that far? One op-amp is far easier - and cheaper - than a ring of three transistors. The minimal op-amp is at least four transistors, maybe five if you want decent output current drive. Two for the differential input, one for the intermediate gain stage, then one (or two if you want to make it push-pull) for the output stage. Add a couple constant current sources, a compensated reference on the output pair, and the number of components climbs pretty fast. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On 15/10/2017 1:52 PM, wrote:
On Saturday, October 14, 2017 at 8:34:58 PM UTC-4, gray_wolf wrote: On 10/14/2017 6:50 PM, geoff wrote: On 15/10/2017 6:50 AM, wrote: The phono cartridge preamp I made used (2) Op-Amps per channel, via Walter Jung's design. Even published in (defunct) High Fidelity Magazine. Impressive. Jack The 741 Cookbook ?Â* Yum. geopff Jung's work was later than the 741. I was using the LF365 and such in some my projects back then. Understood. I forget Op-Amp number, but 4 digit, like 7334 or something like that. 5534 ? Still current. Much earlier, maybe later 60's early 70's, I purchased the world's very first IC power amp. Strange physical configuration, may a couple Watts RMS (mono). Never did anything with it. Jack Sanken hybrid ? 20W of grunge IIRC. geoff |
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On 10/14/2017 11:44 PM, geoff wrote:
On 15/10/2017 1:52 PM, wrote: On Saturday, October 14, 2017 at 8:34:58 PM UTC-4, gray_wolf wrote: On 10/14/2017 6:50 PM, geoff wrote: On 15/10/2017 6:50 AM, wrote: The phono cartridge preamp I made used (2) Op-Amps per channel, via Walter Jung's design. Even published in (defunct) High Fidelity Magazine. Impressive. Jack The 741 Cookbook ?Â* Yum. geopff Jung's work was later than the 741. I was using the LF365 and such in some my projects back then. Understood. I forget Op-Amp number, but 4 digit, like 7334 or something like that. 5534 ?Â* Still current. Much earlier, maybe later 60's early 70's, I purchased the world's very first IC power amp. Strange physical configuration, may a couple Watts RMS (mono). Never did anything with it. Jack Sanken hybrid ? 20W of grunge IIRC. geoff ca 1972 RCA had a thick film hybrid HC2000 that was rated at 100 Watt output into 4 Ohm load. My parts rep got me a couple of engineering samples to play with. Neat idea but wasn't quite what I needed. |
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On 15/10/2017 7:54 PM, John Williamson wrote:
On 15/10/2017 01:30, wrote: Started stuffing the boards, wanted to use IC sockets. The last thing was inserting the Op-Amps. That's when it dawned one me, the mirrored board pin-out was reversed. I called myself a dumb Jack As*. I did the worst thing possible, and bent the IC pins over. Took it home and it worked like a champ! Was nice to thank Walter, online, many years later. The easy way would have been to mount the IC on the copper side of the board. ;-) But one channel would have been 180º out of phase (OK, polarity). geoff |
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On 14 Oct 2017 23:47:58 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
Don Pearce wrote: On 14 Oct 2017 17:11:10 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: Don Pearce wrote: On 14 Oct 2017 09:54:25 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: But, if this is the issue, you can tell because the distortion character will change with the load impedance. You can see it on a scope and you can hear it change as you add shunt resistances to your load. Yep. More current makes this better. But better yet is some gain in front and an external feedback loop that comes from the emitter pin. Op-amp anybody? No need to go that far, the simple Ring of Three circuit family can be found in all sorts of applications like that. Gain is cheap in the solid state world, so it's frequently to your advantage to trade it for linearity. Not go that far? One op-amp is far easier - and cheaper - than a ring of three transistors. The minimal op-amp is at least four transistors, maybe five if you want decent output current drive. Two for the differential input, one for the intermediate gain stage, then one (or two if you want to make it push-pull) for the output stage. Add a couple constant current sources, a compensated reference on the output pair, and the number of components climbs pretty fast. --scott Unless you use an integrated op amp. 5532 is probably my favourite do-everything op amp. The count becomes one op amp and two resistors. d --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On 15/10/2017 08:40, Don Pearce wrote:
On 14 Oct 2017 23:47:58 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: The minimal op-amp is at least four transistors, maybe five if you want decent output current drive. Two for the differential input, one for the intermediate gain stage, then one (or two if you want to make it push-pull) for the output stage. Add a couple constant current sources, a compensated reference on the output pair, and the number of components climbs pretty fast. --scott Unless you use an integrated op amp. 5532 is probably my favourite do-everything op amp. The count becomes one op amp and two resistors. I think that Scott is making the point that inside the black box of the op amp IC, there are many, many active components, all of which have a potential effect on noise and linearity. -- Tciao for Now! John. |
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 09:48:52 +0100, John Williamson
wrote: On 15/10/2017 08:40, Don Pearce wrote: On 14 Oct 2017 23:47:58 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: The minimal op-amp is at least four transistors, maybe five if you want decent output current drive. Two for the differential input, one for the intermediate gain stage, then one (or two if you want to make it push-pull) for the output stage. Add a couple constant current sources, a compensated reference on the output pair, and the number of components climbs pretty fast. --scott Unless you use an integrated op amp. 5532 is probably my favourite do-everything op amp. The count becomes one op amp and two resistors. I think that Scott is making the point that inside the black box of the op amp IC, there are many, many active components, all of which have a potential effect on noise and linearity. I know that - but in terms of effort and cost I need to expend to use it, the op amp wins. And it is the complexity of the op amp that makes it work so much better than discrete transistors. Almost everywhere the normal circuit puts a resistor, the op amp has a current source. That and a hundred other refinements that only come from an unlimited component count make the op amp work better than the discrete circuit. It is only really in ultimately low noise circuits like a mic preamp that I will add several discrete transistors at the input. They will be reasonably high power transistors (for low internal resistances), with several placed in parallel until the combined voltage and current noise hits a minimum at the source impedance of the microphone. d --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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John Williamson wrote:
On 15/10/2017 08:40, Don Pearce wrote: On 14 Oct 2017 23:47:58 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: The minimal op-amp is at least four transistors, maybe five if you want decent output current drive. Two for the differential input, one for the intermediate gain stage, then one (or two if you want to make it push-pull) for the output stage. Add a couple constant current sources, a compensated reference on the output pair, and the number of components climbs pretty fast. Unless you use an integrated op amp. 5532 is probably my favourite do-everything op amp. The count becomes one op amp and two resistors. I think that Scott is making the point that inside the black box of the op amp IC, there are many, many active components, all of which have a potential effect on noise and linearity. Yes, and the bad news is that the designers are severely constrained in the components they can use and don't get much thermal isolation between them. On the other hand they also get great matching and great thermal coupling between them. On the third hand, they're designed by Jim Williams and Bob Pease who likely have put a lot of very smart work into them so you don't have to. On the fourth hand sometimes they are designed by people who aren't as smart as they needed to be but the datasheet was written by marketing people who were smarter, such as in the case of some recent "audiophile" monolithic op-amps. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On 15 Oct 2017 08:20:46 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
John Williamson wrote: On 15/10/2017 08:40, Don Pearce wrote: On 14 Oct 2017 23:47:58 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: The minimal op-amp is at least four transistors, maybe five if you want decent output current drive. Two for the differential input, one for the intermediate gain stage, then one (or two if you want to make it push-pull) for the output stage. Add a couple constant current sources, a compensated reference on the output pair, and the number of components climbs pretty fast. Unless you use an integrated op amp. 5532 is probably my favourite do-everything op amp. The count becomes one op amp and two resistors. I think that Scott is making the point that inside the black box of the op amp IC, there are many, many active components, all of which have a potential effect on noise and linearity. Yes, and the bad news is that the designers are severely constrained in the components they can use and don't get much thermal isolation between them. On the other hand they also get great matching and great thermal coupling between them. On the third hand, they're designed by Jim Williams and Bob Pease who likely have put a lot of very smart work into them so you don't have to. On the fourth hand sometimes they are designed by people who aren't as smart as they needed to be but the datasheet was written by marketing people who were smarter, such as in the case of some recent "audiophile" monolithic op-amps. --scott I met Bob Pease years ago. A bottomless well of knowledge about op-amps and all the gotchas you have to be aware of. Shame he's gone. d --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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Don Pearce wrote:
I met Bob Pease years ago. A bottomless well of knowledge about op-amps and all the gotchas you have to be aware of. Shame he's gone. He's gone, but he left the 5532 behind, and you can take advantage of a lot of that knowledge that he put into it. He is missed, but he will never truly be gone until people stop using his designs. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Don wrote:
"Unless you use an integrated op amp. 5532 is probably my favourite do-everything op amp. The count becomes one op amp and two resistors. " If you want maximum performance and stability from the 5532, you'll probably need a bit more than two resistors, though not a *lot* more. An additional 100R resistor in series with the output helps keep the circuit isolated from capacitative loads; rolling off the response at about 100kHz by putting a capacitor in parallel with the feedback resistor also helps stability, and decoupling the opamp's power pins with stacked film or NP0 capacitors is usually necessary for stability if you use more than one package on a board. It may be necessary to add some electrolytic caps at the input and output for coupling; the 5532 is a remarkably good opsmp for audio, but its DC performance is often not so good. The component count can still be pretty low (say three resistors, three small caps and maybe two or three electrolytics -- maybe also electrolytics on the supply rails). That's a lot fewer parts than a discrete circuit. And yes, you can make a quite-good phono pramp from the two halves of a 5532. Put an RIAA circuit in (either passive or active) and Bob's your uncle. Make the RIAA switchable if you want the option of flat playback (some scratch-reduction software, including iZotope's Rx, works better on flat transfers; if you have Adobe Audition you can add the RIAA compensation easily in software after descratching.) Peace, Paul |
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On 15 Oct 2017 13:49:24 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
Don Pearce wrote: I met Bob Pease years ago. A bottomless well of knowledge about op-amps and all the gotchas you have to be aware of. Shame he's gone. He's gone, but he left the 5532 behind, and you can take advantage of a lot of that knowledge that he put into it. He is missed, but he will never truly be gone until people stop using his designs. --scott As I said in an earlier post - the 5532 is my go-to op amp for anything audio. d --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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Scott Dorsey wrote:
-------------------- I met Bob Pease years ago. A bottomless well of knowledge about op-amps and all the gotchas you have to be aware of. Shame he's gone. He's gone, but he left the 5532 behind, ** Don't think Bob Pease was the designer. The original single op-amp version was the TDA1034 by Philips, soon badged the NE5534 after they acquired Signetics in 1975. The NE5532 is a the dual version. http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/solid...ns-5534-a.html OTOH Bob Pease first started work at National Semiconductor in 1976, having left Teledyne Philbrick. ..... Phil |
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On 15/10/2017 7:48 PM, John Williamson wrote:
On 15/10/2017 08:40, Don Pearce wrote: On 14 Oct 2017 23:47:58 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: The minimal op-amp is at least four transistors, maybe five if you want decent output current drive.* Two for the differential input, one for the intermediate gain stage, then one (or two if you want to make it push-pull) for the output stage.* Add a couple constant current sources, a compensated reference on the output pair, and the number of components climbs pretty fast. --scott Unless you use an integrated op amp. 5532 is probably my favourite do-everything op amp. The count becomes one op amp and two resistors. I think that Scott is making the point that inside the black box of the op amp IC, there are many, many active components, all of which have a potential effect on noise and linearity. Hardly relevant what is inside IF the performance and cost meet your requirements surely? Trevor. |
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On Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 12:44:55 AM UTC-4, geoff wrote:
On 15/10/2017 1:52 PM, wrote: On Saturday, October 14, 2017 at 8:34:58 PM UTC-4, gray_wolf wrote: On 10/14/2017 6:50 PM, geoff wrote: On 15/10/2017 6:50 AM, wrote: The phono cartridge preamp I made used (2) Op-Amps per channel, via Walter Jung's design. Even published in (defunct) High Fidelity Magazine. Impressive. Jack The 741 Cookbook ?Â* Yum. geopff Jung's work was later than the 741. I was using the LF365 and such in some my projects back then. Understood. I forget Op-Amp number, but 4 digit, like 7334 or something like that. 5534 ? Still current. Might be!! Much earlier, maybe later 60's early 70's, I purchased the world's very first IC power amp. Strange physical configuration, may a couple Watts RMS (mono). Never did anything with it. Jack Sanken hybrid ? 20W of grunge IIRC. Looks like a Voltage Regulator. Jack geoff |
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On Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 2:54:28 AM UTC-4, John Williamson wrote:
On 15/10/2017 01:30, wrote: Started stuffing the boards, wanted to use IC sockets. The last thing was inserting the Op-Amps. That's when it dawned one me, the mirrored board pin-out was reversed. I called myself a dumb Jack As*. I did the worst thing possible, and bent the IC pins over. Took it home and it worked like a champ! Was nice to thank Walter, online, many years later. The easy way would have been to mount the IC on the copper side of the board. ;-) But that would have been ugly!! :-) Jack -- Tciao for Now! John. |
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gray_wolf wrote:
ca 1972 RCA had a thick film hybrid HC2000 that was rated at 100 Watt out= put=20 into 4 Ohm load. My parts rep got me a couple of engineering samples to p= lay=20 with. Neat idea but wasn't quite what I needed. Does that count? I'd call that the precursor to the STK modules, but not really an IC since it's not monolithic. The first monolithic I remember was the CA3020, also from RCA around then, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were some before it. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Phil Allison wrote:
The original single op-amp version was the TDA1034 by Philips, soon badged the NE5534 after they acquired Signetics in 1975. The NE5532 is a the dual version. http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/solid...ns-5534-a.html OTOH Bob Pease first started work at National Semiconductor in 1976, having left Teledyne Philbrick. You're right! All these years I've been thinking of the 5532 as being originally an NS design. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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