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Re: RDS 8000 vs. RDS 7.6 (more questions)

I have an RDS3.6 second delay (the little brother of the 7.6) and just
got an RDS8000  8 second delay. Since there are so many models of the
RDS line the 3.6 unit I have is the latter one with a blackface and blue
and grey legending. It has four flat square buttons to select "Flange,
Chorus,Double, and Delay settings and has a repeat hold button (with
light and four stage LED for input. the 3.6  has an inverse feedback
button on the front as well

The RDS8000 is the silverface unit and is about 1/2 the depth of the
other one. It has one "delay range"  knob rather than the four buttons
but these ranges appear to do the same things. Noticeably different are
the fact that the RDS8000 I have has no on/off switch (VERY annoying!)
and it also only has one LED green light for signal and one red which
indicates a "clip" input. The 8000 is missing the inverse feedback
button but it does have a triposition switch with Norm,Trig,sample
settings and a manual trigger button on the front panel.  The other
feature noticeably missing from the RDS8000 is the VCO in. It simply
doesn't have one. All the other ins and outs Mix,Phase out, etc are the
same.

My RDS3.6 was never that noisy and it seems on par with the RDS8000 I
just got. It certainly does not have the hum some people have mentioned
and I personally can't hear any difference in quality. I admit I'm
pretty lofi anyway and I feed them both pretty horrid sources so i don't
know if that affects the overall sound or not.

Unfortunately my RDS3.6 has started to act up though. The Flange and
Chorus buttons no longer seem to do anything which is a tremendous drag
as it was very useful to have a flange CVable via the VCO in.  the
Double and delay still work fine. Sometimes after a few seconds the
Flange will work but usually not. it doesn't' not appear to be a button
or contact problem but I haven't taken it apart to look either.

If anyone has experienced this problem or has any suggestions to fix it
please let me know. Rather than pay to have it repaired I just went out
and bought the RDS8000 when I saw one for cheap. That's the nice thing
about 80s and 90s digital gear I guess, there's plenty of it and it's
cheap :)