[sdiy] Relative merits of various BBD's

[Scott Stites]

> I'll just point out that one reason the Time Machine dissappears isnt due
to
> lack of MN3005's but lack of MN3005's that will handle a reasonable clock
> because they are run close to max rated speed and dont do it well...  I
> think a look back at Mr Blacet's emails will provide ample evidence to
back
> that up.

Run over twice rated speed actually.  Hmmm...I wonder what Mr. B. does with
the MN3005's he kicks out?

> Some of the high-end Reticons would go well up into mhz range.

That's why I'd like to have a stash of SAD1024's - they appear to be drying
up at this point, judging from what I've seen on the stompbox forum.

> And there's
> a company in Texas I think that still makes "precision" BBDs ( now there's
a
> word pair you dont see normally ) that will go to insane frequencys, at a
> price...

You really want to drive Harry insane, don't you?  =-D  Do you recall the
name of the company in Texas?

> Of course for short delays where you only need 32 or 64 stages, its easy
> enough to just build a discrete BBD, just boring to stuff the board.

Interesting idea, hadn't thought of that - that'd be nice for physical
modeling stuff.

Cheers,
Scott