AA501

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Tektronix AA501
audio analyzer
Tektronix AA501

Produced from 1980 to (?)

Manuals
(All manuals in PDF format unless noted otherwise)
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The Tektronix AA501 is a audio analyzer plug-in for the TM500 system.


It provides automated measurement of THD+N and levels (RMS responding) in the range of 10 Hz to 100 kHz. Harmonics are measured up to 300 kHz. It has four built-in weighting filters and allows the user to loop an external filter in. Option 01 adds intermodulation measurement. Input impedance is 100 kΩ and unlike other analyzers with usually 1 MΩ or near-infinite input impedance. Internal THD in the audio band is specified as typically <-95 dB (0.0018 %). Residual THD+N is specified as <-90 dB (<0.0032 %).

It was one of the first, if not the first, audio analyzer capable of fully automatic measurements without requiring manual reference level setting, range selection or frequency fine-tuning.

It is two slots wide.

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