Blackgate news

Lusso5 · 2nd July 2004, 07:43 PM

Taken from:
http://musicaldesign.com/what's_new.htm

BlackGate may cease production!!! (Expletive deleted)!!!!!!

A lousy headline in my opinion, but I didn't make it. Yesterday we received a letter written with great angst from the Japanese exporter of BlackGates. The contract manufacturer for BlackGates is slated to cease production of these incomparable components in 2005 for the Japanese exporter. In fact, we are being asked to make our last order in September if this situation is not reversed.

The manufacturer is converting the former BlackGate plant to the production of low-voltage organic semiconductor capacitors. It appears that OS capacitors have as much as 30dB greater noise contribution than BlackGates. The most well known OS capacitor is the Sanyo OS-CON which is a part used in some audio products, but more so in computer decoupling applications. Some of you may have listened to this part in comparison to BlackGates. The OS capacitors we have tested are not in the same league sonically, not to mention that there are no high voltage types. Our exporter has requested that we quickly express our opinions to the manufacturer since that could possibly change their minds. If you would like to have your say by writing us an e-mail we will pass it along to Japan in the hopes we can reverse this disaster. Will some other manufacturer step forward to make these parts? You have to consider that wishful thinking, so have your say and maybe we can reverse this thing.

Oh yeah, I'd hedge my bets if I were you and order whatever BlackGates you want if that was something you were putting off! ( 05-25-04)

janneman · 2nd July 2004, 09:21 PM

Uhh, does this type of blatant marketing/advertising fall within this forum's rules?

Jan Didden

SY · 2nd July 2004, 09:34 PM

AFAIK, Lusso5 is not affiliated with this company. He's just quoting something he saw. If that's not true, I'll pull this.

Peter Daniel · 2nd July 2004, 10:04 PM

It is true. I got a letter from Japanese distributor.

But you might as well pull this, as the availability of those caps might end up earlier than some of us expect.

2nd July 2004, 07:43 PM	#1
Lusso5 diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Houston, TX	Blackgate news Taken from: http://musicaldesign.com/what's_new.htm BlackGate may cease production!!! (Expletive deleted)!!!!!! A lousy headline in my opinion, but I didn't make it. Yesterday we received a letter written with great angst from the Japanese exporter of BlackGates. The contract manufacturer for BlackGates is slated to cease production of these incomparable components in 2005 for the Japanese exporter. In fact, we are being asked to make our last order in September if this situation is not reversed. The manufacturer is converting the former BlackGate plant to the production of low-voltage organic semiconductor capacitors. It appears that OS capacitors have as much as 30dB greater noise contribution than BlackGates. The most well known OS capacitor is the Sanyo OS-CON which is a part used in some audio products, but more so in computer decoupling applications. Some of you may have listened to this part in comparison to BlackGates. The OS capacitors we have tested are not in the same league sonically, not to mention that there are no high voltage types. Our exporter has requested that we quickly express our opinions to the manufacturer since that could possibly change their minds. If you would like to have your say by writing us an e-mail we will pass it along to Japan in the hopes we can reverse this disaster. Will some other manufacturer step forward to make these parts? You have to consider that wishful thinking, so have your say and maybe we can reverse this thing. Oh yeah, I'd hedge my bets if I were you and order whatever BlackGates you want if that was something you were putting off! ( 05-25-04)

2nd July 2004, 09:21 PM	#2
janneman diyAudio Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Where Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium meet Blog Entries: 6	Uhh, does this type of blatant marketing/advertising fall within this forum's rules? Jan Didden __________________ /Another new issue: Linear Audio Volume 3!

2nd July 2004, 09:34 PM	#3
SY diyAudio Moderator Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Austin, TX Blog Entries: 1	AFAIK, Lusso5 is not affiliated with this company. He's just quoting something he saw. If that's not true, I'll pull this. __________________ “Listening to records is like ****ing a picture of Brigitte Bardot.” - Sergiu Celibidache

2nd July 2004, 10:04 PM	#4
Peter Daniel diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada	It is true. I got a letter from Japanese distributor. But you might as well pull this, as the availability of those caps might end up earlier than some of us expect. __________________ www.audiosector.com “Do something really well. See how much time it takes. It might be a product, a work of art, who knows? Then give it away cheaply, just because you feel that it should not cost so much, even if it took a lot of time and expensive materials to make it.” - JC

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