Just for fun, useless PPA specs

I have a v1 PPA that I decided to test at work today with a scope. 627/637 opamps,
4x buffers, 10 gain, 24 volts input from an Agilent bench supply. Source was an HP
function generator.

The frequency response is dead flat (well +- 1mV was as accurate as I looked) from
about 0.1Hz to 1.5MHz with Sony MDR-570s (32 ohms) attached. the -6dB point is
roughly 5.8MHz. The test was roughly the same with Sennheiser 590s (150 ohms),
though I didn't examine the low end.

Tests with square waves show that it really does a good job of producing real square
waves. On 40Hz square waves it had a 300ns rise time, where rise time is defined as
the time it takes to go from the lowest state, all the way to the high state and settle.
That's about 33MHz. The actual primary rise was like 100ns, there was just a little
overshoot that took a second to correct. The output signal was in the realm of
300mV p-p.

No distortion figures or the like, the scope really isn't suited for it, and I don't know
how to work the network analyzers. Maybe I'll get someone to help me with one
some time later and post some more results. Not that it really means much, the amp

is way overkill for audio, but we knew that already.

In case you are wondering, it tends to pick up a little RF. There was some low level,
extremely high frequency distortion present on the scope all the time. Low enough
and high frequency enough I doubt it makes any difference sonically, but it is there.

From this head-Fi link

http://166.90.205.111/forums/showthread.php?t=180595&highlight=fun+ppa+spec
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