My New Favorite Feature in the LP...
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:33 pm
After all this talk of upgrading the little 8-SOIC Atmel Serial EEPROM in the LPTE i finally grew the balls to crack open my Tribute Edition (I tend to have trouble when I take things apart to not be able to put them back together correctly...or lose a screw).
Whoa, awesome job Moog! beautiful design...very inspirational....
I even went far enough to check out the front panel with the nice surface mount leds.....awesome! I was also very impressed that the entire design was surface mount because I have this irrational fear that surface mount capacitors sound far inferior to the big through-hole poly caps.
I documented the whole thing with my digital camera so I wouldn't have to do it again unless it was to upgrade anything. But a strange feature that really made me happy is what I will call the "Anti-Mouse Wall" which would have been really handy to have in an Opus-3 i bought off ebay a few years ago.
It is simply a little (fire?) wall between the keyboard assembly and the rear area containing the main PCB.
I dunno if it was originally designed by Moog to protect the PCB from that nasty Mouse pee & poo that tend to happen when silly adults store their moogs in attics and basements for extended periods of time....but yeah, I think the new design works well to protect our instruments for the next generation of boys and girls who discover the abandoned Moog Little Phatty!
cheers!
Whoa, awesome job Moog! beautiful design...very inspirational....
I even went far enough to check out the front panel with the nice surface mount leds.....awesome! I was also very impressed that the entire design was surface mount because I have this irrational fear that surface mount capacitors sound far inferior to the big through-hole poly caps.
I documented the whole thing with my digital camera so I wouldn't have to do it again unless it was to upgrade anything. But a strange feature that really made me happy is what I will call the "Anti-Mouse Wall" which would have been really handy to have in an Opus-3 i bought off ebay a few years ago.
It is simply a little (fire?) wall between the keyboard assembly and the rear area containing the main PCB.
I dunno if it was originally designed by Moog to protect the PCB from that nasty Mouse pee & poo that tend to happen when silly adults store their moogs in attics and basements for extended periods of time....but yeah, I think the new design works well to protect our instruments for the next generation of boys and girls who discover the abandoned Moog Little Phatty!
cheers!
