[sdiy] "obsolete" 2N3906

[jhaible]

> Since I'm putting a lot of work and money into figuring out small scale
> surface mount manufacturing, I'd appreciate of you don't put the "hex" on
> it.
>
> I think it should be made very clear that surface mount audio electronics
> CAN sound very good.

[...]

> It's not fair to automatically say something sounds worse just because it
is
> in surface mount.
>
> Pretty please?


Grant, it was not my intention to say anything against SMT.
I wonder if I actually did. (I've sent that from webmail and
don't have a copy).
Was this thread about SMT at all? I thought it was about
the alleged benefits of certain old, big-sized designs, and I tried
to say that not _all_ of this is hype or black magic.
I refered to a recent _ASIC_ design to give an extreme example
of miniaturisation, but SMT wasn't really a topic for me.
Oh, I remember, I brought that example with polystyrene caps.
Hmm, yes. You can live without these and still sound good.
Is that ok ?

8-)

JH.

PS.: Someone change this thread to "size matters !!!", and all the
       spam filters will kill it immediately. (;->)