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In Reply to: RE: Ladder stepped attenuator downsides please posted by beto1 on August 13, 2015 at 17:56:34
There has been about a decade now of complaints against how SMD resistors sound on these attenuators. The most recent complaint that I read had the OP preferring a $5 carbon pot to a rather expensive SMD attenuator.
It was apparently drastic enough that on two otherwise identical amplifiers, the stepped attenuator made one sound broken.
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I have not had a smd type before and was wondering what the difference was.
Hello Caucasian Blackplate,thanks for answer.
the ladder att. in question uses metal film resistors(1%). The series att. uses SMD....are all smd resistors the same? goldpoint stopped to make the ladder att. because, as they claim, that found a good transparent SMD resistors that can match the quality of a good ladder attenuator with only 2 resistors in the signal.
regards
The Goldpoint is the very attenuator to which I was referring.
and all SMD are made the same bad sound?
what's about a ladder attenuator with metal film resistors?
I'm not intended to buy a golpoint by the way, but an Acoustic Dimension.
regards
No they don't all sound the same. Problem is AFAIK the better-sounding SMD ones are rather expensive, and don't come all in one package for a stepped atten. IOW there'd be no advantage to using them, manufacturing cost-wise, and in fact they'd cost a lot more than using "regular" resistors. I suppose there could be some savings in that a machine could quickly assemble the SMD atten, but it wouldn't be smaller either, as the quality-sounding SMDs I'm thinking of are not small (components that sound good rarely/never are).
All I'm doing is opposing the inference that all SMD resistors sound bad, not offering solutions.
That's good information to hear. I'm guessing you're referring to the bulk foil surface mount parts sound a little better?
I had also been wondering if the lack of a mechanical connection might've had something to do with it.
cfraser,
thanks for your answer.
well, I was guessing exactly that.
btw, it is very strange that there is no consensus at all regarding attenuators, no matter there are objective aspects to judge them.
regards
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