Hey Paul, what about the RoHS directive and the effect it's going to have on
your synth when it's all lead free!?!? :)
Oh, and by the way someone commented on the accuracy of resistors and
capacitors in VLSI. Whatever they taught you in school was dead wrong. VLSI
resistors are made of polysilicon and it's a crap shoot getting it to a
particular value. They are able to get many resistors to similar (i.e.
matched) values, but the absolute target is very hard to achieve. Regular
SMT or through hole resistors are much more accurate. Let Paul make the
decisions on the component selection. He has a good track record and will
not let you down.
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From:
motm@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
motm@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Schreiber
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 2:44 PM
To:
motm@yahoogroups.com; Mike Marsh
Subject: Re: [motm] Re: Possible strange question about SMT
> The discussion really wasn't meant as a criticism or anything: just an
> observation (or a question) about the difference in sound between SMT
> and thru-hole components. If thru-holes components have differences
> between themselves, then surely thru-hole vs SMT will sound different.
OK, everybody, I've been gritting my teeth up until now, but
PLEASE STOP. Statements like this have ABSOLUTELY NO FOUNDATION
and in fact, can cause a 'snowball' effect like, "Gee, MOTM sounded so
great,
then Paul switched to SMT and now...pffttt!" or "Well, I ∗was∗ going to buy
MOTM but now I heard they are SMT and don't sound as good." and then
everyone
wonders "what happened" when I go the way of Oakley :(
Also, does anyone ∗really think∗ I would have a MOTM-440 SMT version that
didn't
sound ∗EXACTLY∗ the same as a thru-hole one? Come on......
What everyone has to realize this that "just idle speculation" turns into
"absolute fact"
on the freakin' Internet. So, unless you have a EE degree, ∗DON''T
SPECULATE∗.
Crap, next I'll hear about changing wire color effects VCF resonance or some
BS.
Paul S.
I told you I was having a bad day
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