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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron Hammett" data-source="post: 83000" data-attributes="member: 2866">Re: Monitor out noiseA little off topic never hurt any thread over 5k posts...right?I designed an audio amp for one of those companies that sells its product to those high end audio salons where the rooms are painted white (on white on white), the speakers cost more than a fully opted MB 760Li and a personal butler hands you a diamond encrusted snifter of Courvoisier (but only after signing the waiver). The amp was to be the finest representation of a particular topology which started with a &quot;T&quot; and ended with an &quot;Ripath&quot;. However, the company&#039;s owner was unaware of its main processor&#039;s...uh...analog shortcomings. Without getting too technical, it was sonically noisy. His current iteration of a 40W per channel amp was (kinda sorta) quiet. My design of 160W per channel was supposed to be even more quiet. But as we know, mo&#039; power (mo&#039; gain), mo&#039; problems: Mo&#039; Noise. Can&#039;t get around that. My contribution started with the mitigation of EMI to get it compliant...and ended in a short discussion of how we work within the constraints of physics to get what we want. End of contract, thank you. After a short &quot;You&#039;ll never work in this town again&quot; tirade by said OEM, I was contacted a few short months later to fix the problems that &quot;nobody could figure out&quot;. No, thank you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aaron Hammett, post: 83000, member: 2866"] Re: Monitor out noise A little off topic never hurt any thread over 5k posts...right? I designed an audio amp for one of those companies that sells its product to those high end audio salons where the rooms are painted white (on white on white), the speakers cost more than a fully opted MB 760Li and a personal butler hands you a diamond encrusted snifter of Courvoisier (but only after signing the waiver). The amp was to be the finest representation of a particular topology which started with a "T" and ended with an "Ripath". However, the company's owner was unaware of its main processor's...uh...analog shortcomings. Without getting too technical, it was sonically [B]noisy[/B]. His current iteration of a 40W per channel amp was (kinda sorta) quiet. My design of 160W per channel was supposed to be even more quiet. But as we know, mo' power (mo' gain), mo' problems: Mo' Noise. Can't get around that. My contribution started with the mitigation of EMI to get it compliant...and ended in a short discussion of how [I]we[/I] work within the constraints of physics to get what we want. End of contract, thank you. After a short "You'll never work in this town again" tirade by said OEM, I was contacted a few short months later to fix the problems that "nobody could figure out". No, [B]thank you.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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