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- From: wood@uk.tele.nokia.fi (Peter Wood)
- Subject: Re: PNP vs NPN Output Stages
- In-Reply-To: brad@buck.viewlogic.com's message of 10 Nov 92 00:41:53 GMT
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- Organization: Nokia Telecommunications, Transmission Product Development,
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- References: <1992Nov9.113458.16272@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> <1992Nov9.214606.3791@sei.cmu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:49:23 GMT
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- >>>>> On 10 Nov 92 00:41:53 GMT, brad@buck.viewlogic.com (Bradford Kellogg) said:
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- Brad> In article <1992Nov9.214606.3791@sei.cmu.edu>, rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito) writes:
- Brad> |>
- Brad> |> In article <1992Nov9.113458.16272@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>, Rob Bish writes:
- Brad> |>
- Brad> |> > ***** if you like Bach use NPN *****
- Brad> |> > ***** if you like Chopin use PNP ***
- Brad> |> >
- Brad> |> > ...Has anyone else observed this effect, and can they shed any light on the
- Brad> |> > cause?
- Brad> |> >
- Brad> |> > Rob Bish.
- Brad> |>
- Brad> |> I've noticed the same thing, and furthermore, I get better depth perception
- Brad> |> when listening to baseball and football broadcasts through FETs.
- Brad> |>
- Brad> |> Rich
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- Brad> In fact, the very best thing is a passive mechanical amplifier. Remember
- Brad> those record players with the clamp-in steel needles connected to a 2 inch
- Brad> vibrating diaphagm connected to an ever expanding tubular arm connected
- Brad> to what was in essence a bull horn, like those things pictured on the
- Brad> old RCA Victor records called His Master's Voice with the dog looking
- Brad> in the bell of the horn ? Remember ? Huh ?
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- Oh yes, much better. And don't forget that if you can bear not to listen to
- it for a week, you can turn the horn up and use it to brew beer in too... I
- find that always helps my depth perception...
-
- Yours in search of truly useful hifi
- Pete
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