Report Review for product Op-Amp - Orange, Dual Discrete, Low-Noise, 8-Pin DIP

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I made better discrete op amps when I was in high school. None of the active parts have been pretested & selected for optimum performance. The passive parts are NOT the premium parts Orange claims them to be. For $55 it is utter bull****. The variances in the randomly selected JEFTs are not going to give you anything appreciably better than a regular chip made on a substrate. Were these hand selected for complimentary pairs where applicable, and correct biasing, I would pay $150 for one, but it is just a part that cost 100x than a part the does the same thing to degrees that are not appreciably better or worse on a consistent basis. So without hand selecting matched parts one op amp might be great and the next one will be a total turd that is not even as good a the 50 cent part. The way the pins are supported is also a total joke. They should have made polycarbonate plate with 8 holes in it and put that below those 4 hole strips. These were obviously made to a price point, but as is so often the case with Orange, they have missed the mark yet again, and dumbed down what could have been a stellar product and made it into another mediocre joke product.

Seth E Burgin - July 3rd, 2019