[RFI] NOISE GADGETS

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Wed Nov 10 21:50:58 EST 2004


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:12:57 -0500, Tom Rauch wrote:

>The impedance of the wires has almost nothing to do with the
>design impedance of the system, because the wires are not
>large fractions of a wavelength long. The critical parameter
>is the source and load impedance. In a short line, standing
>waves have no place to stand.

In a central office or studio, that's absolutely true. But if I'm miles of wire 
from the central office it isn't. 

I strongly agree that the filtering is a completely different ballgame if 
you're trying to carry anything but baseband audio on the line. 

Jim








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