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RE: or not

Posted by Ryelands (A) on July 2, 2018 at 07:16:37

In Reply to: or not posted by madisonears on July 1, 2018 at 18:43:56:

sockets are hardly an ideal device . . .

I stand to be corrected but I'd suggest that the sonic degradation caused by a recognised make of turned-pin IC socket (always assuming there are unrecognised makes) can safely be disregarded.

See the data sheets. The added capacitance is negligible, each pin has four points of low-resistance, airtight contact and the added lead length is, when you think about it, very short indeed.

Were I to lash out on Burson op amps, I'd not, given the price, even dream of using them without TP sockets. Ditto for, say, my TDA1541 DAC chips.

That said, I probably agree with you when it comes to conventional DIL sockets.

HTH

Dave

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