In Reply to: They may well have top talent, who are hamstrung by corporate thinkinga posted by Allen Wright on April 18, 2007 at 08:11:31:
<< lifted connection by connection, component by component from a Burr-Brown Application Note >>Not only the big Japanese majors practice this type of intellectual laziness. The so-called "Adaptive Biasing" that Levinson uses in their big power amps was taken directly from a 1981 AES paper written by (of all people!) the engineers from Sansui!
But to my way of thinking, the mere fact of using an op-amp for an audio circuit is another example of this mindset. Effectively the designer is saying "I can't design a better circuit than this." While this may hold true for cost-sensitive applications where sonic performance doesn't matter, it is a bit embarrassing when it comes to a so-called "high-end" product.
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- Re: 11 opamps per channel - Charles Hansen 09:17:34 04/18/07 (0)