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There has been a decent amount of talk about preamps here lately, and I even use them myself.

Figures such as gain and noise figure are fairly simple to understand, but other things such as directivity, IP3 etc., while I've read what these still don't make a lot of sense, at least to me.

If someone would care to explain what all of these specs mean and how they apply to real world use I would certainly appreciate it!