Doepfer

Hi Joe,

> supply. Respects to Timothy, but neither is more "economical" than 
the 
> other, it all depends on how many power supplies you want or need, 
and 
> how you want to distribute the load among them.  I use two 3U cases 
> and a 6U case - it provides more flexibility in the configuration, 
and 
> the power-hungry modules can be allocated to the smaller cases to 
> reduce the load on each individual power supply.

I agree entirely in that use of G3's or G6's depends on what you 
want. However, if you just pile them one on top of the other as I do 
(and plenty of others do too I suspect), then my current 3xG6 cases 
as 6xG3 would cost an _extra_ £483 (or $783 at En-port prices). 
That's _my_ economics ;-). So, each time you buy a G6 case you can 
convince yourself that its the right thing to do - think of all the 
money you have just saved, that can now be spent on other modules 
instead. The downside is that with all that gaping, empty rack space, 
you end up buying more modules sooner rather than later (so perhaps 
it's not such good economics after all...).

BTW (for Neil, Richard and any others interested) I now notice that 
on the Doepfer website under 'A100 Construction Details' not only is 
there a link to the people whose stuff they use (ProMa), but also 
a .pdf file of all the bits 'n bobs one needs to put a case together 
oneself (right down to the captive nuts and self-tapping screws!)

Tim