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Originally Posted by kalee20
I can vouch for that - the plain, smooth, tapered knob of the DAC90 is not user-friendly at all!
The DAC90a look almost the same, but they are slightly deeper and are ridged.
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Smooth knobs were abandoned fairly quickly - I think most of the DAC90s I've seen have the ridged knobs familiar from early 90As.
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Originally Posted by kalee20
Later DAC90a's had a different style again...
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Two, in fact. Mid period DAC90As have very chunky, deep, solid knobs: late ones a much shallower knob but with a perspex disc at the back of it.
The 90A does get hot enough that by now the majority of cream sets have at least the beginnings of a crack on top caused by heat stress: standard walnut bakelite isn't so vulnerable to heat, and I've yet to meet a walnut set with a crack unless from impact. Whether because of the fragility of cream cases or just for economy, a very few late cream 90As were factory painted cream over ordinary bakelite. I took pity on one at the local flea market that was peeling badly, stripped off the remaining paint and decided to leave it as it then was, in a milk chocolate colour much paler than the usual brown.
Paul