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Published on 06-01-2012 01:40 PM
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Way back at the beginning of the electronics age (even before I was born) engineers needed a way to easily express the levels of signal losses and gains in all the new fangled thingamabobs that they were inventing like telephone lines, radio transmitters, antennas, band pass filters, and electric bass amplifiers, just to name a few. The problem is that some of these components (like for example an electric bass amplifier) took a very small signal and amplified it into a very large signal, usually in several stages with each stage having its own set gain.
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