[sdiy] CA3086 and CA3046?

[Dr Strangelove]

Well, the 3086 is used in the Oberheim SEM.  Their advertisements from the 
time claim that tuning stability was better than ALL the competition.  Maybe 
people are not using the 3086 because they're just *too* good. (:-)

         -=<Jonathan Pratt>=-
       (Phdinfunk at hotmail.com)




>From: Thomas Kahn <thomas at roundhouse.se>
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Subject: [sdiy] CA3086 and CA3046?
>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:19:18 +0200
>
>I'd like to know what the difference is between these
>two transistor arrays (the CA3086 and the CA3046)?
>Why is CA3046 often used in synthesizers and the
>CA3086 not? I've looked at the data sheets and found
>no big difference:
>
>CA3086:
>http://www.intersil.com/data/fn/fn4/fn483/FN483.pdf
>
>CA3046:
>http://www.intersil.com/data/fn/fn3/fn341/FN341.pdf
>
>/Thomas
>(Trying to straighten out the questionmarks.)
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