[sdiy] Repairability of modern analog synths

[ulfur hansson]

having practically rebuilt my rhodes chroma, i can safely say it’s incredible how easy it is to source components - its mostly jellybean parts, plus the incredible community on the chroma mailing list has made the chroma damn near immortal.

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> On Oct 20, 2020, at 04:49, Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl> wrote:
> 
> Nearly spot-on!
> The "F" word was basicaly, well, the f-word. But "friendly" is good as well, brings some sarcasm to the name too.
> 
> Roman
> 
> W dniu 2020-10-20 o 05:42, Pete Hartman pisze:
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 10:26 PM Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl <mailto:modular at go2.pl>> wrote:
>> 
>>    4. every 2-3 years there's new package coming for everything.
>>    Resistors
>>    have shrinked to 5% of old sizes if not smaller, plain stupid
>>    opamps are
>>    now offered in more than 10 packages, and even with different
>>    pinouts.
>>    More than likely that in 10 years it will be tough to replace
>>    broken 2mm
>>    QFN opamp with then most popular 1mm NFP (that's not real package,
>>    just
>>    my own acronym, try to guess what it means)
>> 
>> 
>> New "Friendly" Package? :)
>> 
>> 
> 
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