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AUDIO NOVEMBER, 1961 1 www.americanradiohistory.comAmericanRadioHistory.Com Wide -Band Ribbon Microphones SMOOTHEST FOR RESPONSE STEREO PRECISE Il AND FIGURE 8 MONO PATTERN FOR PRO- JOSEPH GIOVANELLI FESSIONAL actually AND HOME Poor Phono Equalization To determine the input load ,vwwwwasagi presented to the pickup you need only to USE Q. I recently built a speaker system. connect an ohmmeter across the input to When connected with my amplifier and the phono position of the preamplifier FM tuner, it sounds fine with nice, clean with the cartridge disconnected. The re- lows. I recently bought a turntable and sistance measured at this point will rep- SPACER STEREO cartridge. I paralleled the two channels of resent the load seen by the cartridge. It for consistently the cartridge by means of a "Y" adapter should be adjusted as is required by the and feed this into the magnetic phono jack superior stereo characteristics of the high- frequency re- on the back of my 122-watt preamp ifier- recordings sponse. amplifier co nmbination. When playing ono - More likely, however, you may possibly phonic discs, the low notes appear o be have connected the two outputs of your Complete Data attenuated. I have played only one s ereo- pickup out of phase. Suggest you cheek Available phonic disc (monophonically) so fa and this first. cannot compare the low notes on it to hose COMING! heard when 'using my tuner at this ime. Determining Speaker Resonance A NEW STEREO The recommended load impedance dif my MICROPHONE Q. wish to a bass reflex enclosure, cartridge is 47,000 ohms per channel. When I build but do not know the resonant frequency I parallel these, I get 23,500 ohms. I do I not know the load impedance of the nput of my woofer. The speaker has a nominal impedance of 8 ohms. Richard Teperson, DYNACO of the phono positition on my am lifer combination. Is there some 'mismatch that Cincinnati, Ohio. Super I don't know about or am I just imagining A. Every musical note has an audio the loss of lows? frequency, or pitch. If you have good Fidelity If you suggest paralleling the i puts musical pitch, or if you have a piano with some value of resistance, woul you handy, you can tap the speaker cone and -' OUTPUT state the valve and also the watta e of note the tone which was produced. You can the resistor? Since I don't know th im- then figure the frequency of the tone using TRANSFORMERS pedance at the input of the phono raph standard reference pitches and the proper position of the unit, can you sugg t to ratios between musical notes. I shall be me a way of measuring it? Charles M. Mc- glad to explain this further if requested. Advanced pulse techniques and Dy- keough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. If the foregoing procedure is impossible naco's patented para- coupled windings for you to use, you will have to run an and massive grain- oriented cores insure A. is you First of all, it possible that impedance curve of the speaker. To do this, superior cquare wave performance and are lacking low frequencies because the near -perfect transients. All transform- an audio oscillator is connected across a discs used for the comparison simply in series network consisting of a variable ers handle full rated power from 20 themselves lack lows. Otherwise, there is resistor (0 to 100 ohms) and the speaker cps to 20 KC, and are conservatively no reason why the paralleling of the cart- rated and guaranteed to handle double to be measured. Feed in various frequen- ridge sections should result in a to s of nominal power from 30 cps to 15 KC. cies and adjust the value of the variable low- frequency response. the r com- If resistor so that the voltage across the re- SPECIFICATIONS mended load impedance presented t the Response: Plus or minus 1 db 6 cps to 60 KC. sistor will equal that of the voltage across Power Curve: Within 1 db 20 cps to 20 KC. cartridge was not observed, there ould the speaker. Do this for each frequency Square Wave Response: No ringing or dis- be a change in the amount of high fre- 20 cps. to 20 KC. fed into the speaker. Then, measure the re- tortion from of the Permissible Feedback: 30 db.
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