Anyone still remeber this sound board?
I do
Crystal Focus Core V3. Nov 2007. It is so huge compared to the soundboards of today. Technology has come a long way.
it's not that huge compared to a CFv8 or 9. Raw size comparison can hardly be made between boards that don't have the same features or parts on them. The CF had a current regulator (and a bulky inductor to go with it), accent pads etc. When you compare for instance with a Nano most of those pads are gone and there's no regulator.
Still, size was mostly then "dictated" by the SD card at that time and components were not as small as what I would use today because I soldered them by hand and didn't have a pick and place machine. They are also quite spaced for that reason.
I wonder if anyone actually has the entire collection of old sound boards since the beginning.
I do ! (with a couple of exceptions). I kept most of the boards, at least one of them, sometimes a dead customer board swapped a brand new one. A friend of mine framed a V2.63 for the first 1500 units made/sold total.
Those 32MB are "special". I got a hard time sourcing many SDs for a proper price back in the day. I found a company in the US but their shipping calculator was so wrong that buying a few of those would lead to 10 grands shipping due to the card packaging.
The guy was nice enough to set them aside for me and I visited the company during a trip for a conference at NYU where I was presenting. I recall getting out of JFK and finding my way to Ronkonkoma by train, fresh out of the plane and not knowing the details of that transportation. They stripped all the SDs from the packaging and I paid in their office via paypal then headed back to NYC with 300 cards like a smuggler
(I paid the guy a proper dinner in town before leaving)
Nice memories !