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Default Testing a 14 pin audio IC

In article ,
Paul wrote:
That's a dual op amp which seems to take high rails
voltage and is intended for driving 600 ohm or 2K ohm loads.
The 600 ohm value, I gather, was a telephony headphone
value of long ago (suited to the vacuum tube era perhaps).
I might have had such a headphone at home when I was a kid.


It's the output impedance of a cathode follower valve. The lowest
impendence then without using a transformer.

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