Circuitos Eletrônicos

View offers whf.cm/BBPhonoAmps August 2013 A top-class choice for amplification, but you’ll need a source and a pair of headphones of similar quality if you want the best from it. Inputs Line-in x3, XLR Outputs Line-out, XLR, 6.3mm headphone

Chord Electronics has levered its dual-feedforward ULTIMA amplifier technology into two new stereo amplifiers, the £9250 ULTIMA 5 (which replaces the SPM 1200 MkII), and the £5995 ULTIMA 6 (replacing the SPM 1050 MkII). The two amplifiers, which look

There are 35 patch points on offer here, and they are broken down into seven main elements. The general inputs in the lower section allow you to control oscillator frequency, pulse-width modulation (PWM), gate triggering, delay time, filter cutoff an

Newport Test Labs measured the overall frequency response of the Krix Esoterix Altum speaker as extending from 38Hz to 36kHz ±3.2dB, which is an excellent result and is shown as the black trace in Graph 1. You can see that the trace is flattest acros

Newport Test Labs measured the power output of the Ayre EX-8 at 1kHz, both channels driven into 80, as being 100-watts continuous per channel, exactly on specification. Power at the frequency extremes dropped a little below this, by 0.5dB to 93-watts

This is an important release as it is the first totally new release from British company Musical Fidelity since they were purchased by Vienna’s Audio Tuning last year. Despite the change in ownership, Simon Quarry, the design genius behind so many Mu

Gone are the days when everyone wanted an enormous heavy showpiece of an amplifier in their boot to impress their mates. The world has moved on and crucially so has the technology. Nowadays the power that used to take the sort of hardware that needed

In this issue we show how to upcycle a rotary phone from the end of the ’60s, which with the help of a Raspberry Pi and a few other electronic components will become a ‘Pi rotary smartphone’. In the next issue we will look at how many projects can be

Onkyo A-9010 £229 Best stereo amplifier under £300, Awards 2017 Our favourite budget amplifier, this is arguably the most entertaining affordable amp around. It is agile and has a wicked sense of rhythm. Power 44W Inputs Line-in x5, MM Outputs Headph

The Tube Screamer has long been a favourite platform for modders and hot-rodders, and the family tree of the classic green overdrive contains a number of excellent op-amp drives like the Timmy and Zendrive that owe the Tube Screamer at least a passin

Controls the input volume before it hits the main digital pedal circuit. Controls the volume of the dry output. Functions in some ways like a mix knob, allowing you to blend the dry and wet signals. The sub octave is one octave below the dry sign

CH Precision’s massive, versatile, technologically sophisticated, 165lb M1.1 power amplifier ($54,000 configured for stereo) can easily crush your foot if you’re not careful when installing it. But the more important consideration is this: Can this c

If you want to see some of these circuits working in actual hardware – a 4-bit adder would be a good choice because the circuit is interesting but of manageable proportions – there’s absolutely no reason why not. Unlike building logic gates, your bas

Luxman’s diminutive SQ-N150 tube amplifier has a power output to match: just 2x12W at 1% THD into 8-4ohm loads. Even under dynamic conditions, its maximum output of 14W, 15.5W, 10W and 5.8W into 8, 4, 2 and 1ohm loads, at up to 3% THD, suggests it is

An established part of the Simaudio stable, the MOON 740P preamp is also the ‘squeaky clean’ half of this amplifier duo. With the offset at 0dB, overall gain is +6dB (or x2, balanced in/out) and the A-wtd S/N ratio a fabulously wide 100dB (re. 0dBV).

An Inside Look at Op-Amps Probably no single component in the electronics twiddlerand-fiddler’s arsenal has made life easier than the versatile operational amplifier or op-amp. Originally, the operational amplifier was called upon to do precisely tha

My 40th visit to Hamvention® was another great one, not only for the great weather, but for being able to once again meet my readers in person. I want to thank all of you who came up to me to thank me for my work in these pages. It is you for whom I

With the fall months approaching, it is time to look at one of the most common problems facing builders when it comes to receiver kits. Other than the great Murania kit, reception of signals coming from the AM broadcast band on simple regenerative sh

In the field of semi-conductors, we deal with materials such as silicon and germanium, and when these solids are employed in electronic circuits, it is generally stated that we are working with the electron flow within, or through, a solid. This enab

It might be a bit pretentious or condescending to title an article “Your First Anything” when addressing such a diverse audience as the readership of CQ. We certainly have a fair number of “properly seasoned” hams in our midst, some of whom may have

In previous columns, we have described various antique methods that were proposed to allow communications without wires in the “olden days.” These columns usually result in many comments from readers as obviously there is interest in what our predece

The multipliers and attenuators discussed above are the workhorses of any modular setup, but there are many other flavours to explore. One such example is the Slew Limiter, which allows you to control the rate of change of a CV signal. For example, y

Deterioration is a fact of life with old classic motorcycles, and more than anything it is the electrical systems that suffer the most. The components most vulnerable are generators and ignition systems where heat and corrosion conspire over time to

This integrated amp does it all: digital conversion though a system with an ESS Sabre DAC and jitter reduction, discreet pre-amp circuitry with specialised options for headphones, a phono stage, plus Class AB amplification through two separate channe

By "smashing" proteins and looking at the broken bits, scientists at Rutgers University say they've discovered four basic building blocks that can be stacked like Legos to build all kinds of different proteins. The results described in Proceedings of