MOTM

Hi
...have you tried 248 Spectrols? In the UK 148's are 3x the price of 248's,
at 7.50 UK Pounds. I would never dream of using 148's in a synthesizer, and
even 248's are becoming over priced along with those lovely Bourns 91A.
Although I still use 248's over 91A because of the better feel and resistor
accuracy. Maybe MOTM format can be the high price/high quality Bourns 91A
flavour, and the FracRac format is Alpha 16mm.
 
Regards
Rob
www.emulatorarchive.com
    

 


I hope you are sitting down when you read this (I just got off the floor 
myself):

Vishay has raised the price of the 148/149 pots (the older black ones, newer

ones are white) from $3.85ea to $12.25 ea.

This is NOT a misprint. They raised the price **THREE F-ING TIMES**. Oh, and
a 
16 to 18 week delivery.

So, effective immediately:

a) I am removing all Spectrol pots from the shopping cart.
b) I an cancelling all pending orders for Spectrol *log* pots. I *think*
have 
enough to cover pending linear orders. If not, I will have to cancel those,
too.

What does this mean long term?

a) I am going to seek a compatible alternative (pcb-wise). However, this is 
*very unlikely*.
b) There is then a decision to make. I can still offer the Spectrol pots,
but I 
will have to increase the price of the assembled modules by as much as $75!
c) Or, I can redesign all of the pc boards to accept blue Bourns pots (like
on 
the MOTM-800). All that is needed is to replace the 1/4" standoffs with
1/8".

Now, I know the Bourns "feel" is not preferred. but, (and I need to check,
like 
TODAY!!), these pots were <$4 the last time I bought them.

I'm just stunned. Comments welcome.

Paul S.