We've had a dyson for going on 2 years now without issue. As Ian can attest to my wife is a neat/clean freak (not quite OCD) and she loves that vacuum.
Markertek has had some annoying stock level of stuff lately. They're out of Pro-Fi's for another week (have been since June) and now they're out of female 3-pin XLRs. Generally I love them, but I hope this isn't the start of a trend.
Only on the special -=*=- version of the pcb. Of course only one of those will ever be made, cause, like there can only be one of something that special cause it was patented at age 19 before it became a NSF scholar pcb at which point it became so awesome sounding that it became the valedictorian of pcbs and went on to pcb university to make post-it art.
They're coming, just not sure when. We've done one round of prototyping (this pcb) and I think we're going to do a second to tweak one or two things and then we'll release the hounds. The first revision looks like this:
All I have left is to wire the DC jack, switch, pot and input.
Nope, I believe that's supposed to be The McCains. That's based purly on the pic of the wife, who's downright scary looking in real life, and the exaggerated aging of John (in line with the Obama cover of the New Yorker).