pfarrell;369079 Wrote: 
> I don't know if you can. I do know that I would buy a bag of transistors
> and sit down and measure the beta of each, and match them myself. It was
> cheaper to do that then buy them in matched pairs.

That's exactly what I did but I managed to do it in the shop and only
buying the ones I selected (used to buy a lot there ;-) 

The big problem is that you need two matched pairs for stereo and you
will find yourself sitting with a single very good matched pair and
multiple less-matched pairs that are however at the same hfe. I always
got that single pair too, saving it for the day I found a second one
just like it but I just ended up with dozens of these pairs that I
could only use for mono-designs (which I almost never did, so they were
never used). Also, a pair consists of one NPN and one PNP transistor so
you can never match with a heap of transistors from the same
manufacturing batch. I always needed single-malt therapy afterwards. I
need it now from just thinking about it again ;-)

cheers,
Nick.


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