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Although Bob Pease didn't like it that so many people use spice. He wrote something like "people use spice to build circuits which don't work in reality".</div>
<div>Was he just oldschool, or did he have a point?<br/>
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I'm semi beginner in EE matters, but my gut feeling says to that, that spice would then be good for trying out ideas to get into the ballpark, but it may not replace actually building things, measuring and correcting according to how stuff actually performs in reality, using actual components.<br/>
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<div>+1 Agree.<br/>
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I use LTSpice, but the principle is the same. There's a lot to be learned from sims before you get to real circuits.<br/>
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And the reverse is true too - I've learned a lot by running sims of existing circuits and finding out what the frequency response was or what was used as the upper limit of audio or whatever. Careful analysis of what better people have done previously is a good way to learn where to go next.<br/>
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On 1 Mar 2016, at 23:05, Chris Juried <cjuried@yahoo.com> wrote:<br/>
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> Agreed. Or my favorite MultiSim.<br/>
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> Best,<br/>
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> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Sarah Thompson<br/>
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> +1 for The Art of Electronics.<br/>
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> Also, get yourself a copy of LTSpice, learn how to use it, and bash away on it to build and check out circuits. You can do more stuff way faster on there than you ever could with physical circuits, which translates to learning a lot very quickly. It also gives you a leg up on having your designs work first time (or more often so) when they are translated into real hardware.<br/>
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> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Karsten Schmidt <info@toxi.co.uk> wrote:<br/>
> There's a great collection of beginner links on Muffwiggler:<br/>
> <a href="https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2795" target="_blank">https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2795</a><br/>
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> On 1 March 2016 at 09:02, Oakley Sound <oakleylist@btinternet.com> wrote:<br/>
> > This set of articles written by Rod Elliott are a really good read:<br/>
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