Can we expect new kits soon?

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Offline mravunko

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on: February 12, 2023, 03:11:48 AM
Hi,

I was wondering if we can expect new kits or new kit revisions of the discontinued products in the last month?



Offline Paul Joppa

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Reply #1 on: February 12, 2023, 04:33:55 AM
We are certainly working on new projects - we always are. We try not to mention them until they have at least resulted in a working prototype which we like. Sometimes an idea is abandoned for a long time and then revived - for example Eros was prototyped 5-10 years(?) ago before adding a shunt regulator brought it to life.

It's hard to predict which ideas will sell well enough to keep active - for example, the short-lived Seductor, based on an idea I'm still refining. (The prototype 50-watt version was a sonic disappointment and never made it to kit status.) Foreplay came back from the dead in version III, then retired again before Moreplay was created to fill in that functional spot.

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Reply #2 on: February 12, 2023, 06:36:50 AM
Peebs has been dragging his feet on the thyratron solder station prototype.

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Reply #3 on: February 12, 2023, 07:37:06 AM
Look who's calling the pot black! We haven't heard anything about your sound stage enhancing Florsheim project for some time now Doc. Perhaps I will ask again at the beginning of April.

Lee R.