For your amusment

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found through sci.electronics.design

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBON [...] ngeek.html

wht has the ieee become ( note lower case)

and serious? comments from
http://hardware.slashdot.org/artic [...] 22&tid=137

no pop ads from munster cable though


martin

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"Ben Bradley" <ben_nospam_bradley@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:30:32 +0200, martin griffith
> <martingriffith@XXyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>found through sci.electronics.design
>>
>>http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/jun05/0605ngeek.html
>
> Hmm, this looks all too familiar. I was reading it late last night.
>
>>wht has the ieee become ( note lower case)
>>
>>and serious? comments from
>>http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/02/154243&tid=222&tid=137
>
> I wrote the phonetically spelled obscenity after quoting the
> article: "Essentially all low-cost DVD players these days use a
> switching power supply." Gee, this is like having a recording studio
> and a firing range adjacent in the same building.
>
>>no pop ads from munster cable though
>
> Slashdot is good that way, though some of the banner ads are from
> Microsoft.

Slashdot turned into a pathetic parody of itself some time ago.

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Justin Ulysses Morse <ulyssesnospam@rollmusic.com> wrote:
>
>Not anymore. Now it's more like having a firing range next door where
>people are shooting lasers. There are switching supplies starting to
>appear in high-end audio gear today that are less likely than a linear
>supply to cause any kind of noise problems. This is because switching
>supplies are now able to run at dramatically higher frequencies than
>previously possible. a 1MHz switching supply uses very small
>capacitors and inductors, and you can shield it with tinfoil. Even if
>it did radiate noise into your audio, you wouldn't hear it.

Oh, well. There goes all my AM radio reception.
--scott


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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com> wrote in message
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> Justin Ulysses Morse <ulyssesnospam@rollmusic.com> wrote:
> >
> >Not anymore. Now it's more like having a firing range next door where
> >people are shooting lasers. There are switching supplies starting to
> >appear in high-end audio gear today that are less likely than a linear
> >supply to cause any kind of noise problems. This is because switching
> >supplies are now able to run at dramatically higher frequencies than
> >previously possible. a 1MHz switching supply uses very small
> >capacitors and inductors, and you can shield it with tinfoil. Even if
> >it did radiate noise into your audio, you wouldn't hear it.
>
> Oh, well. There goes all my AM radio reception.

And maybe your audio too; there have been experiments showing that RF can
intermodulate with audio signals inside amplifier circuits, even if the RFI
is inaudible itself.

Peace,
Paul