Fryette Pittbull Ultralead II

[DanTravis62]

This thread is 34 pages long, so I may have already said this. If so, forgive me.

But if you want to go another route with the ultralead besides giving people what they want, why not prove your ealier boast that you could design a high end solid state amp using high quality parts? I would easily purchase a bad ass solidstate over a non working digital paperweight any day. And i can't imagine it would have even gotten close to the $4k mark.

If you really could make it sound badass, there would be a market. There are a good amount of us that would love to get what we were all hoping for from the theta

100%

If the solid state amp actually sounded kickass and was relatively inexpensive? People would fall over themselves

 

[7704A]

80s digital with full size components that are made in the US is not the same thing as Chinese slave labor digital parts in 2026

You're doing a dumb thought

Nah, I'm just wondering if we've seen any digital gear that's held up over time. Not equating the two things you said.

 

[DanTravis62]

Nah, I'm just wondering if we've seen any digital gear that's held up over time. Not equating the two things you said.

Yeah that's fair enough then. I would say it wildly depends on the era - full size component stuff from like the 80s and early 90s has held up a whole lot better than the later "5600 PCB" stuff of the late 90s and 2000s as far as digital gear, and I don't think that's an accident.

That's why you can still find MP1s all over the place, but finding a clean Triaxis is almost impossible. There are exceptions, sure, but the vast majority of digital gear (especially after they started outsourcing to 3rd world countries and downsizing components) is landfill fodder now.