System upgrade (part 2)

It's like the chamber of 32 doors for the designer, or like putting the goal posts at Wembley on 230V kiddies roundabouts but running them at 600 volts...

S/PDIF, optical, Ethernet, Bluetooth, USB, Wi-Fi, brain implants... did I miss any?

Just a "few moments ago" all I had to deal with was tape heads; crystal, ceramic and magnetic cartridges; optical soundtrack preamps; line-level in every flavour - no standardisation, but all sharing the same thing - analogue!

Life accelerated into now, and everything runs at colossal clock speeds - and it's all "better - better but wow!" - and it's all completely different to each other...

AND it will all soon be obsolete, probably by next Tuesday!

"How many boards must an engineer lay out, until he's done them all? The answer my friend..."

Apologies Tim, this is not a dig at you, but what you need is a one input Majestic, and I only make it with 8.

Lol, no problem Graham. I've been around long enough to know about your rants but as always, they are well founded. The problem is that you are one of a few (if any others still exist??) who I hold as a decent manufacturer, one who can be trusted implicitly and I'm happy to give my money to! But then how can you be expected to make enough products to "correct" every other company's failures? It's unreasonable.

I agree, a "solo" Majestic would be ideal. I'd be fine with the current model but sadly can't stretch my budget to that for only 1 input, especially as I have too many other costly projects in the pipeline!

Is it something you have considered doing in the future though? If so I'd happily make do until you did, even if we're talking years down the line... Alternatively, is there anyway to keep the Bitzie powered at a low voltage without any detrimental effects?

I too was also interested in finding a means of keeping the Bitzie powered up all the time but I found myself unable to find a simple convenient method that wouldn't have me worrying whether I'd be damaging the electronics. This is one of the reasons I sold mine. I must admit that I wouldn't buy a Majestic if there was a "mini-Majestic", say with one optical input, one USB input, maybe a single co-axial input (optional as I probably wouldn't need it), an analogue input (preferred instead of co-axial), a single balanced output and a PSU1 to power the device. Not sure how much this would downscale manufacturing costs and product size/price though.

Edited by Ash - 27 Feb 2015 at 10:24am