FYI, I contacted MTI a few years ago for some replacement 10MHz OCXO, and their minimum buy was 5 pcs.
--Andrew -------------------------------- Andrew E. Kalman, Ph.D. On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:46 PM Bob kb8tq <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Ok, well, the boys at Rakon / CEPE will be happy to sell you a ~ $30,000 > OCXO > with a lead time of about 2 years. I suspect you will have to pay at time > of order > unless you are a well known business …. Unlike a lot of this and that you > see > tossed around for specs, I’m quite sure they *do* meet their published > numbers. > > The only thing I’m not 100% sure of is if the minimum order quantity is > 1,3,5 or > 10. If cost is no object, that should not really matter. > > Bob > > > On Jan 10, 2022, at 3:06 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > -------- > > Bob kb8tq writes: > > > >> My only concern here is that before one goes of and spends 5,10, or > >> 20 thousand dollars on an OCXO, [...] > > > > Bob, you are kind of missing the point here... > > > > The entire point of Audio-Homoepathy is to spend excessive amounts > > of money, so that you can brag about how rich you are, and how > > super-human your refined sense of hearing is, all without wasting > > any time or effort on it. > > > > How else can there be a market for $3000 CAT-6 ethernet cables ? > > > > It is Audio-Homoepathy, because the crucial feature is "orders of > magnitude". > > > > They do not buy a slightly expensive ethernet cable, they buy one > > which cost several orders of magnitude more than what it is worth, > > so that nobody can doubt that money is no issue - and thereby > > make the money the only real point. > > > > I know several people who are quite comfortable parting these > > newly-rich from their money, and I cannot really fault them... > > > > One of those companies have a business model where they hand-build > > quite competent amplifiers using outrageous raw materials and hawk > > them at insane prices using industry-strength flim-flam. > > > > When I say "indystry-strength flim-flam" I mean it. > > > > At one time they had a role of teflon foil stored next to a resarch > > nuclear reactor for some weeks, so that the "neutrons could equalize > > the the tension in the micro-grid structure" before it got rolled > > into capacitors with a gold foil with similar super-natural properties. > > > > Often the invariably "very serious buyer" will persuade them, in > > return for a stiff compensation, to never build any more, and refuse > > to ever talk abut it, so he can (also) brag about having the only > > one ever made, and make up some flim-flam about why that is so > > ("... but that reactor is closed now, and the guy who knew how to > > reorient the rolls is dead.") > > > > Then they rinse & repeat, this time with capacitors wound by virgins > > from some tropical island or whatever. > > > > The fact that the socalled "NFT" market has negatively impacted the > > "high end audio" market recently tells you everything you need to > > know about both of them. > > > > So the question we are really being asked here, is what which > > OCXO can be flim-flam'ed the most, when it becomes another dose > > of audio-homoepathy. > > > > Poul-Henning > > > > -- > > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by > incompetence. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] -- To unsubscribe send > an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] -- To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there.
