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Mike Rivers[_2_] Mike Rivers[_2_] is offline
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On 2/26/2017 9:48 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Not to mention that germanium transistors were not either linear or
temperature-stable. Biasing them with a single leakage resistor like a
tube kind of works.... but isn't such a good plan if you care about
stability or distortion.


And today, "engineers" prize gear built with one or more germanium
transistors for its distortion.

Go figure.

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