<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">At least, thx to these people, we've always got gold-plated content, if not connectors...<div>A<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 3 Jun 2025, at 16:53, Tim Parkhurst via Synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>All these years, and we still haven't answered the really big questions:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Do I really need gold-plated connectors and oxygen free copper wiring for my USB cable?</div><div>2. Why do through-hole parts sound better than surface mount? </div><div>3. What is the best filter? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Tim (if it walks like a duck, does an analog duck sound better?) Servo<br>---<br>"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein<br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM Michael E Caloroso via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Sorry to hear that. We'll try to be more contentious and irreverent in the future.<div><br></div><div>:D</div><div><br></div><div>MC</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM Donald Tillman <<a href="mailto:don@till.com" target="_blank">don@till.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>[champaign clink]<div><br></div><div>One of the things I've always appreciated about synth-diy, and I've always mentioned when I talk about it, is that we have a unique forum where somebody can ask a naive question and get a remarkably insightful discussion out of it. Because sometimes it's helpful to revisit the basics.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course they have to ask it in the right way. Good faith and all.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Don<br><div><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="auto"><div style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">--<br>Donald Tillman, Palo Alto, California<br><a href="https://till.com/" target="_blank">https://till.com</a></div></div></div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 30, 2025, at 6:29 PM, Chris McDowell via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="auto">Amazing. thank you, Ben! the signal to noise ratio here really is impressive and I've enjoyed being a member. <div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>________________________________________________________<br>
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