so much for breadboarding...

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No, you've got it all wrong... :)

There will be a debate about whether a vacuum tube made this way is more accurate vs more organic sounding tubes made the old-fashioned way.

Then there will be the people who use it to make all the discrete components and PCB separately and then solder it all together by hand. The claim will be that it cannot reproduce the sweetness of sound from components that have been heated to exactly 250'C.

Finally, there will be some disagreement on whether CDs and LPs are being reproduced accurately enough by this technology. Since the limit of the machine is not atoms but crystal lattices, the debate will be mostly about it's atomic resolution and how much is good enough.

:)ensen.
 
If you lay it out and print it properly, it'll probably sound just fine. The limitation is conductivity- conductive polymers which are easily processable have moderately low conductivity compared to metals (like on the order of 1-100 mhos/cm). CPs with high conductivity (e.g., oriented highly-crystalline polyacetylene) are not particularly stable or processable. And solderability is a difficult issue.

Here's my first crack at the problem:

Polymer Electronic Components

And one other cool thing- the charge carriers in many conducting polymers are solitons and polarons.
 
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