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Most tube stages have much higher overload margins, as do many vintage designs, and higher voltage modern discrete designs. Many phono stages have relatively low overload margins today because they use low voltage power supplies and so can't swing much voltage on the output before distorting. If the output voltage from the cartridge is significantly higher than the 5mV reference, then the phono stage has a lot less room before overloading. A typical minimum rating for a good phono preamp is around 20dB (x10), so the stage could handle a 50mV signal on a hot cut record without distortion (at least distortion due to the phono stage, the cartridge may still distort tracking those hot peaks). It is the amount of signal level above the nominal 5mV (for MM stages) that can be tolerated before distortion rises dramatically on the output of the phono stage. Since 2011 he has been awarded with a research grant for the PhD degree in Technology of Architecture concerning seawater as a valuable resource.Click to expand.No, nothing to do with listening volume, they are talking about what is termed 'input overload margin' for phono stages.

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He graduated with full marks in a five years university course with a degree in Architecture at the University IUAV of Venice, where he has been working since 2006 as an assistant and lecturer in the degree program Building Production and in the degree program Sustainable Design. She has been a researcher at the University of Florence.Īntonio Girardi was born in Italy near Venice. She gave lectures in various Universities in Europe and organized workshops in collaboration with galleries and public institutions. Her work was presented at Venice Biennale 2012.

She has been working on various site specific and art installations combining nature and technology in “organic machines”. She worked as a designer in Spain and Italy for international offices. She took a degree in Architecture at the University IUAV of Venice. She has an architectonic and artistic background. The goal is to set up synergic relationships and to provoke mutual exchanges between the natural and the artificial environment, which is the fundamental theme of sustainable design.Ĭristiana Favretto was born in Italy near Venice.

PNAT utilizes current knowledge of plant behaviors to inspire innovative design concepts and products, from the small to the building scale. Since 2014 Cristiana Favretto and Antonio Girardi with professor Stefano Mancuso and botanists Camilla Pandolfi, Elisa Azzarello and Elisa Masi founded PNAT an emerging think thank where plant scientists and designers works togheter with the aim of conceiving creative solutions based on evidence. It is mobile because it shifts among different disciplines involving mixes of software, creative thinking, handicraft, lab-activities, cultural and social research and whatever else is necessary to create multifunctional solutions and innovative imaginaries. It conceives the design as a holistic field where blending architecture, art, technology and urban ecology. Studiomobile is a design office established by Antonio Girardi and Cristiana Favretto in 2009.