[sdiy] SSM2164 last time buys

[lanterma at ece.gatech.edu]

On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

> On 24 Feb 2011, at 15:41, Tim Ressel wrote:
> 
>> Change is hard to deal with sometimes, but it is one of the constants of the  universe. So we had better get used to it. 
> 
> I just wish it didn't happen so fast that us poor humans can't keep up. I'd only just got to grips with all the things you can do with an SSM2164, and then they go and take it off me. Grrrr.

I love this quote from pp. 20-21 of David Allen's "Making it All Work":

"Nothing's new except how frequently everything is new... in the last three days you have probably received for change-producing, project-creating, and priority-shifting input than your parents received in a month... Such upheavals happened relatively so seldom in their world, they just tolerated the stress. You are living in a near-constant state of it, as your adoption of new technology has permitted all kinds of things to be landing in your e-mail and your voice mail, and any one of which could undermine what you think your priorities should be."

> Also, it isn't like we've got loads of other options out there. There are no other quad VCAs at all. A pair of THAT2162's would be about the closest thing.


Checking out the datasheet... interesting... interesting... aaack! Teensy tiny QSOP packaging! (And kind of pricey, $5.85 for 1, $4.68 for 25 at Mouser, although it's around the same price as a THAT2180 which is a single VCA).

- Aaron