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by Unklejoe 1834 days ago
I was watching an interview with Tom Christiansen (he owns Neurochrome, a company that makes very high-end DIY amplifier designs/kits, with THDs of 0.0001%).

He mentioned something about how resistor noise can actually track with the low frequency portions of the audio signal due to the resistor literally heating up and cooling down as the current through it varies. I thought that was interesting. I knew that noise was proportional to heat, but I didn't realize the temperature could vary that quickly, but I guess it makes sense when you're dealing with tiny parts. There are probably also localized hot spots that have less thermal mass than the entire resistor as a whole.

The interview is posted in this thread: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/t...