Re: "all pass" thought about (analogue) compression

From: gwhite (gwhite_at_deadend.com)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:41:54 GMT

Ken Smith wrote:
>

> I haven't verified it yet but it seems to me that
> 3 stages of phase shifter and 4 clippers should be able to make a
> significant compression of amplitude but make less that 5% distortion on a
> sine wave.

As far as a sine wave goes, the RF clipper eliminates harmonics entirely. A
baseband version has been given. The patent expired.

> The intermodulation distortion will not be made zero by this method.

Nor by any method.

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