Re: OT 0805 resistor noise



martin griffith wrote:

> I've been looking spec for resistors, rather boring, but what's the
> difference between thick film and thin film noise, the data sheets are
> not very forthcoming
>
> It seems that thick film are noisier, so I started looking for 1%
> thin film stuff (for audio), but although they seem to be available
> all the distro's, Digikey/farnell just seem to stock .1% types, a bit
> excessive for audio purposes in most cases, the only exception would
> be RIAA EQ (joke)

Joke assimilated ! ;-)

I don't attempt to use 0805 types for low noise. I switch to leaded types
where necessary.

Then again I'm now moving back away from SMD for the most part.

Graham

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