Phasure NOS1 Waiting List

[PeterSt]

Dear all,

I just sent everyone who ever showed interest in the Phasure NOS1 an email. This email is about the polite question whether you are still interested, and furthermore contains the preliminary specs of the DAC. The latter is a small privilege for those eagerly waiting, but later I will post them here too.

I tried all my best to dig up your interest from this forum, PM's and emails, but had to use search terms to my imagination to find all. And so it is very easy to have missed some people. For everyone I found, I registered the first date I could find about it, and so emerged a First In First Out waiting list. The email has been sent to the email address known to the forum (the one you used for registering). If that is not valid anmymore and you are sure you should be on that list, please send an email to sales @ you know where. Title it "Phasure NOS1 Waiting List". Also, if you did not receive the email but are sure you ever exposed your interest, please dig up where that was (forum, PM, email, other ?) and refer to it in the email. It is important for the position on the list.

I'd like you to respond the latest next Monday (Dec. 6) the end of the day (11:59pm, and make that your time) so we can make the sequence of the list a kind of definite.


A small problem

In the mean time, a small problem arose. Or at least it seems it has;
I always thought that the now planned first 20 would be sufficient to satisfy the currently known group of interestees. But to my surprise I could dig up 47 of you. On one side I guess quite some will be off the list because of no interest anymore, but on the other side I'm quite sure I didn't find everyone. My point is : where we set up all for a first 100, it looks like there's not much headroom before the 100 is fully used, while I thought or planned to survive the next 6 months with that. Of course it depends a lot on how much "raving" will emerge after the first have receive their NOS1, and if not much, all will be ok by nature. But what will happen when the raving is there ?

The first rather serious problem is that -while I have always tried to obtain the PCM1704U-K chips availble (at a doable price of 30 euros pp)- and while a last available batch of 528 pieces is coming to us half of December, the next available batch will be June or July 2011. Yes, I saw that coming allright, but with in mind 80 not yet sold units that feels different from 50 or less, depending on how many people I missed (and how many not wanting to be on the list anymore of course). There are more sources to get the chips, but the price will easily be 40 euros per piece without import duties (the mentioned 30 euros is net / without), and I don't like to add 100 or more euros to the sales price, but also don't like to loose that myself (really not much marging being there).
In the end it's not only the D/A chips but more stuff which just can't be obtained fast because they have to be produced on demand, and I know from experience it can take 4 or 5 months for certain parts.

Additionally, you can imagine that I won't order parts for a next batch of 100 or more units right at this moment, not knowing what will really come from it. I mean, if you calculate half of the sales price to be labor costs -all is hand soldered and assembled and not in China- (and some margin allright) and the other half is the parts costs, you can calculate the investment I'm doing right on this moment already for the 100 units. I have no problems with that, but you can imagine that I first want to see what is coming from it all. Is everybody raving ? no problem. But if not, I rather keep that money in the form of money, and not in the form of nice blue boxes. You will understand.

So, what I expect now, is a gap of yet unknown precise time in between the first 100 units delivered and any next batch. After that we know what we're at, and it won't happen again (saying : if we can predict 1000 units for the remainder of 2011, they will be there, no matter the investment and no matter delivery times because we just order parts for the 1000 in one go).
In a month's time (maybe two) we should know how things really go, knowing in advance that a sufficient amount of people will have expressed their feelings about the Phasure NOS1.

Thank you for your understanding,
Peter

[manisandher]

Hey Peter,

I really enjoyed reading the NOS1 Specs doc. Facinating stuff.

In the document you say "... your speakers should have sufficient headroom to allow for the NOS1 output." I'm assuming that this is something we'll just have to test for by listening to the NOS1 in our respective systems. How might this distortion sound?

Mani.

[Marcin_gps]

8 x 1704, very nice and I wanted to buy Audio-GD
Besides, I understand now how I could play with KS special mode on ESI drivers, while drivers from other vendors failed.
Looking forward  to first reviews.

Good luck,
Marcin

[Jack]

Hello Peter
I hope all is well with you & yours.
I guess my "show of interest" in the NOS1 was too subtle!
Where's MY e-mail!
In anticipation...
Jack

[PeterSt]

Oh Jack, I am so sorry. But no damage done. But, please let me know where your interest hangs, so I can dedicate that date (hence position) to you ! (email, PM, forum, date, link, photo, beer)

Peter

[pedal]

Hello Peter
I hope all is well with you & yours.
I guess my "show of interest" in the NOS1 was too subtle!
Where's MY e-mail!
In anticipation...
Jack

Oops. Sorry about that Jack, but you will have to wait untill next summer!   

[Jack]

Pedal
I am reliably informed that the UK is having an early summer this year & it's going to be xxtra hot!
But thanks for your concern!
Jack

[PeterSt]

Additionally, Pedal just offered his place on the list for yours. Isn't he a great guy ?
Well, I got this strange email very early in the morning, and although I couldn't read it much, I guess he offered just that.

[Jack]

Yes Peter
I love it here, what a great guy indeed. Is there a button I can press to shake his hand!
Jack

[pedal]

Oops. Seems my joke backfired terribly here 

[PeterSt]

I just received an email from Jack;
A nice poem will stimulate him sufficiently enough to be as nice as you are.

?


PS: It is "Sinterklaas Evening" here, so logically it has to be on rhyme.
Below is one of the greatest "house" albums. But only for dutch. We play this every year on Dec. 5. It is amazing how much it improved this year compared to the others. Well, you know ...

[pedal]

I want you, I want you so bad
I want you, I want you so bad
It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad
I want you, I want you so bad
I want you, I want you so bad
It's driving me bad, it's driving me mad
I want you, I want you so bad, NOS1
I want you, I want you so bad
It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad
It's so heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy
I want you, I want you so bad
I want you, I want you so bad
It's driving me bad, it's driving me mad
I want you, I want you so bad, NOS1, I want you
You know I want you so bad,
It's driving me bad, it's driving me mad
Yeah, it's so heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy
I want you, I want you so bad, NOS1, I want you
You know I want you so bad
It's driving me mad, It's driving me bad
Yeah, it's so heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy
I want you, I want you so bad
I want you, I want you so bad
It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad
I want you, I want you so bad, NOS1, I want you
You know I want you so bad, it's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
It's so

[Jack]

Jesus, this guy's got it bad. I can't compete with that. Put him back on the list.....
Happy daze
Jack

[PeterSt]

All,

I only want to say that there's less than 24 hours left before the final list for the first shipment will be made. You knew that ... Ok.
But since I have had no response yet from some people from whom I expected it, *please* don't respond at 5 to 12 and have a 100 questions in the mean time. Some of you clearly will know how much time I spent on answering to those questions, and it really can't be done in a last few minutes. Having questions is your right ! but please be in time with them.
Or accept to be in the second shipment of course (should be close to New Year or just after it). No problem then.

Thanks,
Peter

[Leo]

Just to calm my nerves, just as bad as when as a kid I was waiting for st Nicolas eve, could you give a reply to those that DID send a reply and have no certainty, just plain old fear for the black hole that sucks emails into the unknown, that indeed you received their reply and that they may have some hope to be in the first shipment....