<p dir="ltr">Are they necessary now? That's not what Matthew said as I understood it. :-)</p>
<p dir="ltr">And about high input impedance - it can invite unwanted signals in the cables because of the low currents involved, so people often seem to prefer a moderate input impedance somewhere between 10k and 100k.</p>
<p dir="ltr">/mr<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Den 6 feb. 2016 11:04 fm skrev "Tom Wiltshire" <<a href="mailto:tom@electricdruid.net">tom@electricdruid.net</a>>:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I agree with Matthew. Input caps are necessary, but they don't usually have to be electrolytic. In anything with a reasonable input impedance, you can use film caps of a few hundred nFs and have plenty of low-end. So I don't see a need to use electrolytics for DC blocking.<br>
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Tom<br>
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On 6 Feb 2016, at 09:37, <a href="mailto:mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca">mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca</a> wrote:<br>
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> On Sat, 6 Feb 2016, Mattias Rickardsson wrote:<br>
>> Another capacitor question popped up:<br>
>> What's your view on having electrolytic caps right at the input of an audio<br>
>> device in order to block DC and/or protect the circuit?<br>
><br>
> I think it's not so much a question of "protection," as of allowing you to<br>
> choose the DC bias point of the first stage. If you don't block DC, then<br>
> anything you connect to that input is going to affect the bias in a<br>
> hard-to-predict way.<br>
><br>
>> Does a cap really add any protection here? The DC issue can be taken care of<br>
>> later in the signal chain, and avoiding input caps saves cost, space, and<br>
><br>
> In *some* circuits - some op amp circuits in particular - you may be free<br>
> to remove the DC offset later. In others, like the typical<br>
> discrete-transistor amplifier, that'll be difficult or impossible and you<br>
> really need to get rid of DC right from the start.<br>
><br>
> I'd avoid electrolytic caps in this application because they don't<br>
> tolerate reverse voltage, and so it'd become necessary to protect the cap<br>
> from that, one way or another. Not so much an issue of signal quality.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Matthew Skala<br>
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