MOTM

The mighty gears of the MOTM industrial-complex are starting to turn and gain 
momentum.

Kits are being shipping out this week, although just a few to start with. All of 
the major components are on order, and *so far* the pacing item appears to be 
tempco resistors (KRL is back to 6-8 weeks delivery,  last year they were 
quoting 3-4). I have finished 15 MOTM-310 uVCO kits, these will start shipping 
on Saturday. I am also going to ship 5 '650s on Sat and 5 on Monday.

Again, for 85% of the new sale orders, the delivery will be the end of 
August/first of Sept.

Shane the tech dropped off some '485 assembled pc boards and picked up 8 '480 
sets to stuff next week (then he goes to Brazil for 3 weeks, lucky bastard). I 
am working on some '300s and some '440s. I have to stop and finish a system 
assembled in a cabinet to be shipped by Aug. 15th.

The "good" news is that I do not foresee any parts *supply* issues (I had one 
part I had trouble with but that's taken care of). Now we all have to sit and 
wait for part *delivery* issues. In the meantime the Indiana folks are stuffing 
~80,000 parts into little plastic bags. This takes a while :) BTW, the sale is 
not standing at order #259 (436 kits) if you want to guess where you are in 
line. Order #106 was the first order of the sale.

On the AudioEngine front: I am ordering parts this weekend for engineering 
breadboards (prototypes are next, these are most definitely breadboards!). I am 
in the process of upgrading the pcb CAD software (I am using 7 year old stuff 
now) but it sure costs a lot (about $5500 total). Ack.

Paul S.