MOTM

> And although I'm highly tempted to do a tube pre-amp/limiter... I 
won't
> for the same reasons as Paul.

okay you two, lay it out.  what's the big deal?  in talking to an 
electronics building friend of mine (and customer of your's mr. 
allgood), he made it seem like tube preamp building was a piece of 
cake.  as we were sitting there in my car on a dust storm-ravaged 
burning man road, he sketched out a basic tube pre-amp schem in like 
two minutes.  "much easier than transistor stuff" he said.  "been 
doing it since i was a teenager" he said.  maybe i missed the emails 
where you guys waxed poetic about just how much lethal voltage we 
were all getting ourselves into, but besides an envelope follower, my 
most desired module would be some kinda of tube VCA.  

don't let that dickhead eric barbour (whoops, did i just say 
dickhead?) have all the fun.  i'm gonna have to resort to 
rackmounting a fisher reciever here in a month or two.

alex