Because no one builds analog audio components anymore? The audio
industry is puny, so when the medical, military, etc. industries stop
buying these parts, they get expensive to do. I'm sure Paul's orders
are several orders of magnitude away from being interesting to any of
these parts suppliers. (Except for maybe the british flag display guy.)
On Sep 2, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Kenneth Elhardt wrote:
> Paul writes:
> >>Looking at the Spectrol prices now, Mouser is asking over ∗$7
> each∗ for
> the 148/149 pots! They used to be $3 each.<<
>
> Andre Majoral writes:
> >>KB1051S28-ND and KKB1051S28-ND ? Whoa ! 11 USD for the single, 33
> USD for
> the dual. Methinks a group buy at Alpha is in order.<<
>
> Seems like all I hear is how parts have doubled, trippled,
> quadruppled in
> price. Do these companies ever give any justification for their insane
> price increases? Do people ever make their anger known to those
> companies?
> Seems like they're screwing people over and getting away with it.
>
> -Elhardt
>
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