I have managed to dig up a PDF of the quite intersting 1977 article "Toward Microphone Transparency" by Paul Buff, the inventor of the TransAmp transformerless mic preamp.
If anyone here wants to put it on their site for others to read, let me know and I'll send it right over. It's 8 pages and just over 900k in size.
I was in contact with Paul Buff just recently and among many interesting things he told me; "This (article) raised a lot of controversy because the bulk of the issue was not the TransAmp at all but, rather, my challenge of the methods of specification of theoretical minimum noise levels at the time."
If anyone here wants to put it on their site for others to read, let me know and I'll send it right over. It's 8 pages and just over 900k in size.
I was in contact with Paul Buff just recently and among many interesting things he told me; "This (article) raised a lot of controversy because the bulk of the issue was not the TransAmp at all but, rather, my challenge of the methods of specification of theoretical minimum noise levels at the time."