PSA: Attention: 4th & 5th Gen SDA/SDA SRS Owners

gimpod

Last chance get your 4th & 5th Gen SDA/SDA SRS boards, I sent David (@westmassguy) at DHS Speaker Service the last of my boards. So when there gone they will be gone for Good.



Just a refresher:

These are bare boards (no components) and were designed to use bigger Caps & Resistors like Sonicap & Mills and work for the following 4th & 5th Gen SDA/SDA SRS's with a single board crossover and a Pin/Blade I.C. cable.

(* denotes early transitional model.)
*SDA 2B (1987 Blade/Blade I.C. with single board crossover)
SDA 2B/CRS+ (Pin/Blade I.C.)
*SDA 1C (1987 Blade/Blade I.C. with duel board crossover)
SDA 1C
SDA SRS 2 (1987 Pin/Blade I.C. with single board crossover)
SDA SRS 3.1TL
SDA SRS 2.3
SDA SRS 2.3TL
SDA SRS 1.2
SDA SRS 1.2TL

Check with David (@westmassguy) at DHS Speaker Service.[/quote]

I've just checked & I've made thees boards avaible for over 9 years (April 2011 - blows my mind!).

Big thank's to David (@westmassguy) & Trey (@VR3) and of course everyone who purched a set.

mrbigbluelight

Thanks for the heads up, nice to hear from you.
Hope all is well in your neck of the woods.

xsmi

And thank you Tony! Your service has been greatly appreciated!

gimpod

All Things Must Pass

https://youtu.be/QWV4pFV5nX4

Seeing how all the board's are SOLD I'll be taking down the site this month.

Toolfan66

Can you give it a couple weeks, I would like to snap shot or print some things out..

BTW, how have you been??

pitdogg2

Agree I'd like to print out some stuff.
Happy New Year Tony!

How's life treating you ?

westmassguy

gimpod wrote: »

Last chance get your 4th & 5th Gen SDA/SDA SRS boards, I sent David (@westmassguy) at DHS Speaker Service the last of my boards. So when there gone they will be gone for Good.



Just a refresher:

These are bare boards (no components) and were designed to use bigger Caps & Resistors like Sonicap & Mills and work for the following 4th & 5th Gen SDA/SDA SRS's with a single board crossover and a Pin/Blade I.C. cable.

(* denotes early transitional model.)
*SDA 2B (1987 Blade/Blade I.C. with single board crossover)
SDA 2B/CRS+ (Pin/Blade I.C.)
*SDA 1C (1987 Blade/Blade I.C. with duel board crossover)
SDA 1C
SDA SRS 2 (1987 Pin/Blade I.C. with single board crossover)
SDA SRS 3.1TL
SDA SRS 2.3
SDA SRS 2.3TL
SDA SRS 1.2
SDA SRS 1.2TL

Check with David (@westmassguy) at DHS Speaker Service.

I've just checked & I've made thees boards avaible for over 9 years (April 2011 - blows my mind!).

Big thank's to David (@westmassguy) & Trey (@VR3) and of course everyone who purched a set.[/quote]

Was my pleasure Tony

gimpod

Guy's I have a backup of the site and I'm putting together a zipped version for download.

pitdogg2

Dude only thing better would be more boards😉

Navy_Goat

gimpod wrote: »

Guy's I have a backup of the site and I'm putting together a zipped version for download.

That is awesome! This is the sort of thing that I really enjoy about this community.

halo71

Dang, hate to see the site taken down. I've referenced that site many times over the years.

vader540is

Very sad

nooshinjohn

pitdogg2 wrote: »

Dude only thing better would be more boards😉

I wonder how much the boards themselves contribute to the huge improvements in sound quality. They were better than the factory boards by several orders of magnitude.

pitdogg2

I wonder just what it takes to get some made? I seen Tony said the last batch was made down under.
I'm wondering if they have the ability to make more from his last batch?
Honestly I slept on the last, I really wanted another set to populate with say Clarity CMR or some other that I could compare with my Sonicaps.
Easy peasy to pull the passive and switch, boom done!

BlueBirdMusic

^^^^
Me too Ivan. I'm wondering.

vader540is

I'd be willing to buy two pairs.

pitdogg2

Group buy 🤣

Toolfan66

pitdogg2 wrote: »

Group buy 🤣

That’s not a bad idea…

Toolfan66

pitdogg2

It's doubtful Larry. Tony would have to be part of it. We do not know the minimum number needed to even start. He has not been active on the forum the last few years.

Gardenstater

Is it an issue of intellectual property? There I said it.

pitdogg2

Gardenstater wrote: »

Is it an issue of intellectual property? There I said it.

I do not think so George. AFAIK Tony developed these all on his own, I'm not aware of any trademarks or patents. Tony made two runs and the second he did have trouble with. I'm sure the headaches from the second run soured his enthusiasm to tackle more. I'm not in any position to state for fact, lets just say Tony has many pot holes and speed bumps in the road so I appreciate what he did do and can appreciate the reason he may not want to tackle this again.

Toolfan66

Thanks for the info Ivan, I had forgot about the issues with that run. I have an extra set I have put away but if it was a possibility I would have thrown in for another set to get the ball rolling..

I am still sitting on a 1K dreadnought.

westmassguy

I won't speak for Tony, he's quite capable of doing that himself.
Here's what I know:
1. It's Tony's I.P. for his design, no one else.
2. I spoke with him when the stock started to run low, and he told me production costs had skyrocketed.
3. It took several years for Tony to recoup his investment on the second run. That's a long time for his money to be hanging out there, selling pairs in drips and drabs.

Toolfan66

westmassguy wrote: »

I won't speak for Tony, he's quite capable of doing that himself.
Here's what I know:
1. It's Tony's I.P. for his design, no one else.
2. I spoke with him when the stock started to run low, and he told me production costs had skyrocketed.
3. It took several years for Tony to recoup his investment on the second run. That's a long time for his money to be hanging out there, selling pairs in drips and drabs.

That makes sense, and many of us were not seeing that, including myself..

Gardenstater

The devils always in the details. It is hard for anyone not directly involved to realize how difficult it is. Just a thought though. If it is an issue of IP and I can certainly relate to that, if a price was named or a range of price, perhaps a GoFundMe could be started to purchase all the CAD files so that the boards could live again in the future in the public domain.

JayMX

If the IP is secured, I have a good friend that builds a line of guitar pedals. https://thisheavyearth.com/
I'm sure I could talk him into making the raw boards. He does all his own and has the process dialed in. Might even get him to put some pentagrams or some other "artwork" on them for us...

pitdogg2

That sounds like a great possibility.
@gimpod

gimpod

westmassguy wrote: »

I won't speak for Tony, he's quite capable of doing that himself.
Here's what I know:
1. It's Tony's I.P. for his design, no one else.
2. I spoke with him when the stock started to run low, and he told me production costs had skyrocketed.
3. It took several years for Tony to recoup his investment on the second-forth run. That's a long time for his money to be hanging out there, selling pairs in drips and drabs.

Ditto....
In the last 10 years 04/2011 - 04/2021 there's been 4 run made, 2011, 2012, 2015 & 2018. The 2012 run had to be remade 3 times before they said "good enough" and I still had to toss 10+ sets in the trash. Anyway Here you go.
Gimpod's Site Download

westmassguy

gimpod wrote: »

Ditto....
In the last 10 years 04/2011 - 04/2021 there's been 4 run made, 2011, 2012, 2015 & 2018. The 2012 run had to be remade 3 times before they said "good enough" and I still had to toss 10+ sets in the trash. Anyway Here you go.
Gimpod's Site Download

Thanks Tony. Never knew you did four runs.

Toolfan66

Yeah, I thought there were only two runs..