[sdiy] Resistor War !!!

[Goddard, Duncan]

>>>Yes, but you would have to make sure that it was liquid nitrogen of the
> correct isotope.  I would be willing to bet that the heavier (and more rare, thus
> more expensive) isotopes make the resistors sound much better than the common
> everyday isotopes that lesser users cool their resistors with....<<<
> 
isotopes of liquid nitrogen? but wouldn't the gradual decay from the isotope to the base-form produce noise in it's own right?
go colder and use helium, I reckon. but where to locate the refridgeration plant so that the acoustic noise doesn't become an issue...... and the superconducting effects would probably screw up the response of any servo systems.
is there, I wonder, an optical analogue for a transistor? or a tube?

d.


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