Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Heathkit Pro-Series being pahsed out? Message-ID: <806@hound.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 14:06:04 EST Article-I.D.: hound.806 Posted: Tue Jan 8 14:06:04 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 05:40:08 EST References: <637@hou5a.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 19 [] I,for one, won't cry a bit (well, maybe a little bit) if Heathkit as a whole is phased out. I speak as one who years ago built dozens of heathkits and still have many moldering away in my basement. In my humble but firm opinion it has been literally decades since heathkits were worth a damn on a cost/performance basis. The costs went sky high and the performance went to hell, but the advertising improved apace. Off hand I recall: The audio mixer whose power supply was designed as a giant amplifier for a noise generator. The Audio sweep generator advertised to cover "3 decades" that wouldn't. The color tv with a focus system that didn't. Despite such boobles, I only swore off them for good when it became possible to buy better for much less. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts." Dick Grantges hound!rfg