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Comment by tlb

3 months ago

Inductors (the L of LC) are large and expensive except at very high frequencies. So audio circuits are normally designed with just resistors and capacitors.

And you always need an active component like a transistor. A pure LC can oscillate for hundreds of cycles but not indefinitely.

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