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- From: wkb@cbnews.cb.att.com (wm.keith.brummett)
- Subject: Inverting buffer?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:21:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.012158.5817@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: inverting buffer
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- A lot of folks have been playing with buffered-volume-control preamps
- (a la Aunt Corey's) lately. Most of the schematics I've seen show the
- buffer to be an op-amp configured for unity gain with no resistors in
- the input (R1) or feedback (R2) paths. I.e.:
-
- ______________
- | __ |
- |____| \ |
- | - \____|____ Out
- In ___________| + /
- |__/
-
- My question is, can one make a similar unity-gain INVERTING buffer, e.g:
-
- ______________
- | __ |
- In ______|____| \ |
- | - \____|____ Out
- ____| + /
- _|__ |__/
- ///
-
- I can't seem to find any example of such an inverting buffer anywhere
- (one using no resistors, that is). And, a Radio Shack engineering book
- claims that with the resistors, the gain is (1 + R2/R1), whereas the
- gain of the similar non-inverting buffer is just (R2/R1). If this is
- true, how does one make a unity-gain, inverting buffer?
-
- The driving force behind this is to make a buffered-volume-control
- preamp with both inverting and non-inverting outputs. In addition to
- giving a polarity choice, it would simplify driving bridged-mono amps
- (IF the gain on both outputs is the same). If the inverting buffer has
- to have resitors, and the gain equation is different, I can just add the
- appropriate resitors to the non-inverting side to match. But, I'd
- rather not use any resistors at all if I can get away with it. Any
- clues?
-
- Also, on a completely unrelated note: I think someone recently posted
- something about a shoppers' service on CompuServe that had decent prices
- on some good-quality audio equipment. Could some kind soul send me some
- e-mail on how I can get more info on this?
-
- Thanks much! -- Keith
-
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