Originally Posted by
Macca
Got that issue, will have to dig it out and see what they say about it.
They liked it. I wasn't so keen on it (Alchemist Axiom). I consider it my worst effort.... yet it's by far the biggest seller! I wanted to do a complete but quick redesign and basically replace the innards with totally different circuitry but the partners in Alchemist decided it was more than good enough to be their entry level integrated.
It was a rather "outré" design which i later thought was just too off the beaten track to work well as a budget product. By the time I'd decided that within the tight parts budget I had, a more conventional topology would be both cheaper and better they had decided to run with it as it was...
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