Re: Where is Graham's mixer design? (was Re: RAT Tube Mixer update?)

Ian Iveson wrote:
> 
> The first stage usually is the main culprit, in a circuit 
> with several cascaded gain stages. But is that still the 
> case if half way through the circuit the signal is 
> attenuated to the same level as the input, and then 
> restored? Is the stage that recovers the gain equally 
> im****tant?
> 
> 

It is im****tant. It's noise and head room performance are particularly 
im****tant.

Cheers

Ian