Are they trying to reach a peace accord between objectivists and subjectivists?
An interesting article in Electronic Design
http://electronicdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/16804/16804.html
This is not to start down the beaten path of confrontation, but the info is good and the article can be used as a starting point in researching several mentioned products from National, TI, ADI, Maxim.....
Boris
That article is WAY cool, IMHO from what National Semi provides in the documents, it is hard not to see National's people actually having a lot of fun trying all those supposed audiophile parts
. It is interesting that in the coupling capacitor selections, they choose copper wire to be better than expensive boutique grade stuff.
"In multiple listening tests, with different participants and at various locations around the country, the negative effects of even the best film and foil polystyrene DC blocking input capacitors in the audio signal path was confirmed."
The above quote comes from their App Note, I got a feeling that had some MIT's MultiCap RT/RTX (forgot which is which) in test and find that a straight wire is still superior to some very expensive capacitors.
Which App Note did it come from? Well, go to National's web site and find out, anyone who does that will find more than just a treasure trove of analog design/tuning information, it is like a treasure island of very useful infos.
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when picking between affordable OP, high performance OP or "Something in Between(tm)" OP, since National always (well from what I had seen anyways) price their stuff quite reasonably.
