Word: immed
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...vessels to explore the deeps under better control, and as he charged around Lausanne, Switzerland, this year, he looked, at 78, hardly more scrawny than when he first climbed into the stratosphere 30 years before. Death had brushed close to him so many times that the wonderful professor seemed im mune. But last week the only man to break both depth and altitude records died at home of a heart attack...
...names withheld]: Warum derf nicht im Flusse schwimmen...
...Polizei hat es verboten, im Flusse zu schwimmen...
...IM, or intermodulation distortion, is the result of two or more separate tones affecting each other in such a way as to produce a spurious, discordant, frequency. It is minute traces of this type of fault which lead to "listener fatigue," a condition characterized by a desire on the part of the listener to shut the set off, even though he doesn't quite know what is irritating him. In larger doses this is the rasping, grating effect we are used to from the majority of transistor radios, for example...
...order to reproduce music correctly to your study of the specs sheets can lead to good preliminary evaluations of equipment. Remember that frequency response accuracies are useful but that low distortion is vital. Look for the lowest possible distortion in all your components (under 1% total IM and harmonic is considered good today). And above all, use your ears as the final acid test of any component, and especially when contemplating purchase of a speaker...