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Old 02-02-2006, 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by dagosto
Germanium is a semi-conductor used in transitors (the buiding blocks of op-amps). It has slightly different properties that its counterpart Silicon. Germanium is rarely used these days because of the high supply of Silicon (sand) but I am not sure if it is of any higher quality sound-wise.
thanks for the explination. since they use germanium instead of silicon on this pre, do you know if they use it with computers also?
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