Question on pre design for Kevin A. (or anyone else)

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Dan Kennedy wrote:

> Clean, edgy, gutless, and lifeless.

Yeah, probably true of any amplicator where the output is
only a scaled version of the input.

(Amplicator is a word that just was coined in comp.dsp by
someone that isn't a native English speaker. I just love
the word for what it implies!)


Bob
--

"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein

 

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Dan Kennedy wrote:

> Very simple, been doing it for years, in a variety of formats including
> PIC and 80x1 implementations.
>
> The TI should do a reasonable job, but it looks like it's sort of
> strangled by noise, or at least that's what I see in those graphs of
> gain vs noise. Not front end noise, but digital noise getting
> into the system.

Really ? How did you come to that conslusion ?

I have a PGA2500 EV board currently so I'll be making some checks soon anyway.

> I know you can do better, but not easier. It'll sound like an SSM-2017
> or any other variation of hybrid instrumentation amp done passably well.
>
> Clean, edgy, gutless, and lifeless.

What would you suggest for added 'life and guts' ?


Graham