<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 30, 2021, at 2:02 PM, David G Dixon via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" class="">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left" class=""><span class="527390018-30092021">Oh no, the pots are on a
PCB and not wired? How can we expect this to sound the same as a dusty old
Model D from 1973? </span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Don't forget that damn "better" copper they're using these days. Because of the reduced "impurities" the wires to the pots have to be at least half a meter long now to get "that sound".</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" align="left" class=""><span class="527390018-30092021">There might be sharp corners!</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left" class=""><span class="527390018-30092021">SHARP CORNERS
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Word. And of course that wasn't a big problem until they removed the lead from solder. Without the positrons moving in the opposite direction around corners everything sounds like crap. Not that anyone with a $2495 limited "Jobs Edition" iPhone Ω-L7 will ever notice over Bluetooth. Even with the 3.5mm phone jack on my iPhone 5s it's hard to make out any difference.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Next thing you know they'll ban the mercury in Fiberglas® PC boards. 8/</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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