[sdiy] DIP LM13700 discontinuation

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Wed, 19 May 2021, chris wrote:
> Hmm, I don't understand why people are dogmatically sticking to DIP.
>
> Soldering SO is a piece of cake. Even my 60+ years old eyes and fingers
> have no problems with SO. It's not as if it were 0.4mm pitch or BGA.
>
> Or is it the old wives' tale that the holes make it sound better?
> Like f holes on a violin...?

The violin hole example is an interesting one, because there's evidence
that those do in fact affect the sound.
   https://news.mit.edu/2015/violin-acoustic-power-0210

I don't know that many synth-DIY readers are also DIYing violins, but
there might possibly be some interest for physical modelling synthesis.

-- 
Matthew Skala
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