The end of the road for Stereo

The world has had the H2 capacitor clip for many years but now no longer. It is available to backorder with new stock arriving in >today's date plus one calendar year<, and as it's always today's date it might as well be a carrot - you know! A carrot on a stick - we're just being led on by donkeys.

It's exactly like the WM8741 farce. Edinburgh company's exit strategy was to sell out to Cirrus Logic. Cirrus Logic strategy was to blot out Wolfson's chips and sell more of their own. Neither make/made chips - they subbed it out to you know where - and Cirrus has no stock of its own. How long can you keep trading without anything to trade? China, meanwhile, keeps making lots and lots of digital audio interfaces that end up in a hi-fi store chain, sold under good old English brand names...

It is my belief that RS and Farnell are now owned by the "enemy" or it would seem that way as they have NO STOCK on a rolling forward basis, ever!

So who does that leave? I guess we can always count on the Americans? Except they're heading in exactly the same direction. Yes, I'm talking about Mouser and Digikey. By the looks of things the US mass news media want a civil war, and also hate the UK (have you heard what they've been saying about the Queen?), so it won't be far off before we've nothing to build with!

If ever things get better again, next time round there needs to be a law passed that stops money freaks owning companies, and companies are run by engineers! At the same time, politicians and journalists need to be sent to a penal colony!