[sdiy] cap question

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Aug 9, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Scott Nordlund wrote:

>> I think that's the general difficulty with this sort of thing,  
>> "vintage" sound and whatnot.  Stuff gets designed according to  
>> ideal approximations, by necessity.  If a "better", more ideal  
>> circuit sounds less interesting, it doesn't mean that a more  
>> arbitrarily imperfect circuit will necessarily sound superior, or  
>> that it's a credit to the tremendous insight of the original  
>> designer (who probably would have preferred higher performance/ 
>> better specs in the first place).  It seems to me that the most  
>> important factor is dumb luck, guided by careful listening.

Reminds me of Don Buchla's comment to me when I called to ask him for  
permission to sell boards for my Easel adaptation project:

"Those circuits are 40 years old. You do realize you could design  
something much better now?"

- Aaron