1930's microphone preamp

[DaveP]

Fascinating,

Stark in English could also mean strong, but only to describe a contrast, normally it is used to describe something bare or bleak.

It was not until I got into French that I realised that English is a bastard language composed of bits of every language from every nation that ever invaded the British Isles, Danes, Saxons, Vikings and finally Norman French.  The only word I know left from the original British language is "wan" (same in Welsh) which means weak.  The pre Norman English stopped being used about 1300 as French words gradually took over for all important business but without the French accent.  Even today, words with a French origin are used for anything of quality or sophistication.  A coffin would be interred, but a potato buried.  The pre Norman  words survive in the common words like who, what, when, where, how etc.

Best
DaveP

 

[ruffrecords]

I have a history book called The Evolution of England written back in the 1930s. It has a fascinating section about how English developed after the Norman Conquest. The nobility all spoke French and most legal documents were still written in Latin. English as we know it was spoken by ordinary English folk. It was a working language so it drew on everyday experiences and was forged by the everyday people and their backgrounds and daily lives. There was no need for complication or sophistication so complex endings for different tenses and genders we dropped and inanimate objects had no gender. As a result it was a tremendously fluid language for a long time and in many ways it still is.

Cheers

Ian

 

[Brinkman]

Also a ~~3:1 driver transformer semi-matches the overload points of V2 and V3. This can cause a cancellation of even-order distortion. Perhaps from 5%-10% for V3 alone to 2%-4% for V2+V3. The odd-order distortion rises but not objectionably (for the era). The Old Guys were clever in ways we have forgotten.

I know this is an ancient thread but I’m curious about the principle behind this distortion cancellation. Is it because the winding ratio (= voltage ratio) of the IT ensures distortion of both stages occurs concurrently with level and due to the phase relationship between Va of V2 and V3, this means even order distortion cancellation? A quasi-“series push-pull”?