Black gate caps and vishay bulk foil resistors
Oct 19, 2005 at 10:48 PM Post #61 of 61
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Originally Posted by pburke
you need to look at alternate designs of stepped attenuators. My S5 stepped attenuators have only 2 resistors in the signal path, and they are always the same. That's where I spent $25 on a pair of "naked S102s" made by Texascomponents.com while the rest are all Holcos and even radioshack for the volumes I barely ever use. The S102s versus Holcos in the shunt position made a huge difference. Totally new preamp.

To learn more about S5 check this page:

http://www.siteswithstyle.com/VoltSe...ure_Shunt.html



Peter



EDIT: Repetitive and redundant. Just pointing out that that attenuator has input impedence problems that would make it unsuitable for most amps.
 

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