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  • A Concise Overview of TIM by Bob Cordell

    This set of articles was written in the early 1980’s by Bob Cordell, a few years after Matti Otala identified TIM (Transient Inter-Modulation) as the probable cause of sonic imperfections in high feedback solid state amplifiers in the 1970’s. Otala’s paper sent shock waves through the amplifier design community but sadly it ended up ‘subjectivizing’…

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