Re: Musikding Range (noisy germanium transistor)
Yesterday I received a new EFT83 (that was fast! :o 
) and everything is fine now! The new transistor has minimum noise and is excellent, the other EFT83 was really faulty as I suspected.
Klaus, thank you very much for your excelent service and support! You are the best 
Hello,
I've recently built the Rangemaster clone from Musikding and everything went well until I tried it. It is just unusable due to the excessive noise it produces (a very loud hiss). A friend of mine also bought the kit and he too complains about this problem...
I soon found that the problem was in the germanium transistor (EFT83C-JT) because when I tried a BC558 (silicon) the noise was gone and it is totally usable this way!
Is this a common problem of these transistors or we just had bad luck?
Thanks
