RIAA Equalizer Amplifier Design

This article explores the fundamental’s of phono amplifier design,  culminating in a few practical designs. Special emphasis is placed on overload margins (critical if you want good sonics from your EQ amp), driving the EQ network adequately and noise. RIAA Equalization Amplifiers V2.0 Below is the RIAA Calculator Excel spread sheet.  Please read the article above, […]

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The Tale of Two Recordings

I thought I’d share my thoughts with you on the sound of two LP’s I recently acquired.   Many of you will have heard of the term ‘sound wars’ which has been coined to describe the relentless increase in the use of  dynamic range compression in modern recordings, a development it could be argued from the […]

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