[sdiy] "obsolete" 2N3906

[Colin f]

> I think it should be made very clear that surface mount audio 
> electronics
> CAN sound very good. It's up to the designer to compensate 
> for the practical
> variation in methods. But this would be true even of a simple 
> board redesign
> using identical parts, not just converting to surface mount. 
> It's up to the
> designer to use his or her ears and brain to get a good 
> sounding product.

I dread the day when thru-hole components are all gone, and I have to
prototype a circuit by going straight to SMT.
The ease with which you can experiment with a thru-hole circuit on
stripboard is far greater than re-working an SMT board.
Final tweaking of circuit values by ear would not be something surface
mount lends itself to IMHO.
Or does everybody else get their designs bang-on right from the
schematic capture stage ?

Colin f