Re: Simm sound

[floyd@voicenet.com]

> >
> >The LoOpDoctORs can here the difference between different batches of 
>SIMMS in
> >both the Echoplex and the Jammen.  We've come to prefer the Vintage 
>Malaysian
> >Simms from 1994...buttery mids and clear, warm highs, kind of like 
>taking a
> >dip in a waterfall on the road to Mandalay.  And we turned Eric Johnson 
>onto
> >the Duracels you know.
> 
> I've got some vintage 256k simms from the late 80's. Warmth and tone like
> you won't believe. These puppies will really make your echoplex sing!
> Highest bidder by next thursday gets 'em, you pay shipping.
> 
> kim
> 
 Wanna talk vintage??

I have a 64 bit tube RAM.  This beauty, circa 1954, still works
and I have easily retro-fitted its cable to a simm socket.
You wouldn't beleive it but to hear it, but the 44 millisecond
access time actually works well to provide just the right high
frequency roll-off in the digital domain to supress quantization
and nyquist noise.  The power supply is a bitch, though.

I've been searching surplus dealers and swap-meets to find more
of these to increase my storage.

 - Floyd