[sdiy] why use TDA1022's or any other no longer made BBD for new projects?

[anthony]

It's often frustrating to look at schematics for BBD type projects and find 
that it's one that I don't have.

MN3007's and MN3207's are still available to the point of ubiquity and new 
MN3207 and MN3102 clones are in current production.

Basing new designs on BL3207's and BL3208's (the latter available both in 
8-pin and 14-pin dip) will ensure that there is no scramble to get "lifetime 
buy" parts.

I'm glad I still have a lot of MN3007's though because the S/N ratio really 
is significantly better.
I wish Shanghai-Belling had gone for the PMOS versions instead of the NMOS, 
regardless of the advantages NMOS parts have (faster clock speeds, but using 
a brutish clock overcomes even this, I think maybe a little less distortion, 
but PMOS distortion is GOOD...).

But I digress...

I just think it's a good idea to plan way ahead. Sure someoen who wants to 
clone a BF2 is already set, and maybe I've overlooked projects in the SDIY 
realm that use MN3207's.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking Juergen Haible: his designs are 
sublime. I still wish he'd spill with schematic drawings for his Dimension 
D. I have the factory schematic and boy is it more than a slightly jacked-up 
Dimension C.

And ironically my plans to build a Dimension C instead of a Dimension D have 
been thwarted by my not having any MN3207's. BUt I don't have any HA1457's 
either...


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