In Reply to: Input sensitivity posted by SteveBrown on December 12, 2018 at 07:38:00:
Great topic Steve!My main concern with high input sensitivity (high gain at the input/driver stage, usually) is that any current induced into the interconnect or input stage is converted to voltage (noise) through a high-impedance circuit, then amplified massively. This noise is injected after the volume control and is not attenuated. And as you say, some of those input stages are not in low-noise environments. In the case of cascaded SN7 sections, the amplification approaches 400x.
The counter-argument is that these super-high gain stages give a greater sense of dynamics/drive... but I suspect there are other ways of achieving this without need for massive gain and attendant the noise issue.
Cheers,
91.
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