[sdiy] NE570 vs NE571: interchangeable?

[Tom Arnold]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:38:23AM -0400, anthony wrote:
> I have an old DOD R-870 thta uses an NE571 compandor, but it's way noisy 
> and I get "artifacts" sometimes that don't sound good. I just got a used 
> Digitech PDS2000 and just cracked it open and noticed that IT has an NE570, 
> which I recall reading has better performance than the 571.

NE570 just has tighter specs then the NE571 plus it can handle a higher
supply voltage.

I doubt you'd a magic improvement by dropping a 570 in place of the 571.
Probably has more to do with how they are using the compandor vs which one
it actually is.

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