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From: shauns@vice.UUCP (Shaun Simpkins)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: RE: where to improve
Message-ID: <1326@vice.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Apr-84 00:36:56 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 15 00:36:56 1984
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If you are talking about NOISE, the best place to improve the amplifier
system is in the first stage, where the signal level is the lowest and thus
closest to the noise level of any stage in the chain (as any communications
text will tell you, if it's quoted correctly).  The S/N of this first stage
signal will only decrease as it passes through the rest of the chain.  As far
as distortion goes, whatever component is the poorest should go bye-bye first.
A linear system is a linear system, within its dynamic range.

the wandering squash,
-- 
				Shaun Simpkins

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