That someone is Mary Schmich: Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young - chicagotribune.com
Grats Duggeh, on having the courage to change your path when you were unsatisfied rather than just going with the flow. I don't think I could do that if I were in your shoes.
I think I spent a good hour or so on mouser's site before I gave up and pulled out the dead tree version. Pulled up the data sheet for the EOL'd version and went from page to page until I found one that had the same size/dimensions. Turns out that giant catalog is good for something after all
Definite kudo's to Nate as well! Hopefully everything will show up in time for a weekend build then I can have an amp to run headphones with (currently ampless, heh)
I'll have to file that fact away for future reference, at this rate pretty soon I won't have to order from digikey anymore! I ordered the Panny's from Digikey since I had a couple items I needed to get from them anyways. Thanks dsavitsk and TomB for the great support, looking forward to building this loooooooong amp!
About the only thing item I couldn't find was the switch, I looked up the sizes and 108-1AD1T1710-EVX looked like had the same pin spacing so I went with that. Funny enough your mouser project email came in right after I clicked order
As for the speaker it's currently an old Energy center channel but once I get the time I'll be building a ZA5.3c MTM Center channel to replace it; hopefully I can tint my cherry veneer to the reddish-orange color that my AU265's have.
My curiosity about the GS/PS1000 was piqued after reading this thread, so I went over to headroom to check out the frequency chart. Holy shit, you folks weren't kidding about the hump in the bass and treble:
Wow.
I'm thinking of picking up an UPA-1 from Emotiva for center channel duties, the reviews seem decently positive. You can definitely switch off the blue lights and meters.