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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Disc Recording Equalization Demystified by Gary A. Gallo

Pictured: A Neumann Cutting Lathe used to make the record master. Picture courtesy of Bakery Mastering This is one of the best non-mathematical introductions to the RIAA disc recording playback chain written. Gallo worked at the Crane School of Music in New York for 30 years as an audio engineer, where he also received a […]

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