Hello mark,

 > ml>> linear is much harder to manufacture...

 > JB> I can't think why that would be so, and that's is not
 > JB> reflected in the pricing i've seen. they have been the same
 > JB> price as log pots wherever I've looked. (try R2225 vs R2233 at
 > JB> www.altronics.com)

 > things must have gotten easier to manufacture in the last 12+ years...

Nah. Whwn I build my first radios, some forty five years ago, linear and
log pots already were the same price.

 > maybe they've been able to achieve finer and
 > more uniform carbon particles in much the same way that
 > hard drive media can hold more and more data...

Sure. Modern potentiometers are better than the old ones. But I don't think
linears were ever harder to make than logs. If there ever was a difference
it was the other way around I'd say.

Cheers, Michiel

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